Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Quotes

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

We will all face criticism throughout our lives, no matter where we live and what we weigh.

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.