Memphis Depay Quotes

I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

I put a lot of pressure on myself, I can't say today is a bad day, I can't do that to myself. Whatever it takes, I have to deliver a scene.

We put pressure on ourselves because we want to be so great; we want to be the best team possible that we can be.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

I've never been more motivated to be No. 1 in the world. I've never been more motivated to try to extend that lead from one to two. All the hard work that I've put into my game right now has paid off, but I've got to keep working hard to win as much as I can.

What I can control is how I'll perform when I got to a team.

I know what it takes to make myself perform.

That's the thing with top players, the higher you go up, the more you want. You want to push your body, push your mind, push what you want to get out of that particular season.

I need to motivate myself to work hard because only I can skate my program.

If you have any ambitions to improve and be a world-class side, you have to be very tough on yourselves.

I just go out there and try to compete to the best of my abilities.

You have to get yourself right for the Worlds. If you can't get yourself right for that you shouldn't be playing.

I'd be walking off the court thinking I didn't put everything out there, which was the last thing I wanted, so I just went out there and focused on my game, and it worked out great. It's nice to know I can play at that level, but to do it week in, week out is a different challenge, and I want to be able to do that.

The only thing I can control is winning on the basketball court.

My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.

I don't think there's anybody that puts more pressure on himself than I do.

I think the only expectation is that I put on myself to do everything right and to put myself in a position to perform as best that I can.

I'm in this sport to test myself. I want to see how far I can take this thing.

I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.

I'm sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a better player. I am not just turning up to make up the numbers.