Michael Carrick Quotes

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.

You learn from any criticism. You learn from any self-criticism. And you learn from when you do things the right way: you try to keep going.

I think when you call someone out, you have to be ready.

Eventually, the truth comes out in sport and in life. When you win, you're praised, and when you lose, you're criticized. That's normal.

You can't keep losing and say nothing in the dressing room.

We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.