Granit Xhaka Quotes

If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.

My parents kept me very grounded.

When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.

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.

When I first started playing international cricket, people around me started telling me what was being said. And you're never as good as anybody says you are. I try to stay quite logical about things.

I think it's good for parents to be supportive, to motivate, and to somewhat nudge their kids because the majority of kids will want to quit something when it gets hard - that's just their nature. Children will normally take the easier road.

There's a lot of criticism in this job and what we do. It's in front of everybody and for everybody to have their own opinion about what we do. Don't be in this position if you can't handle that criticism.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.

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

When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

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.

My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.