Kyle Lowry Quotes

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

That competitive nature comes out when I feel like I'm playing bad and when things aren't going right.

Even when I played in club matches, I would take it to heart that I had got out early.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

I never think: 'If I crash, I'm going to hurt myself.' I might think: 'If I crash, I'm not going to win.' Everything's about that finish line.

I always just wanted to play my game, minimize mistakes so I had the best chance to make a roster.

If I'm not the best D-lineman, it's not good enough for me.

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

I am one of those athletes who is very hard on myself.

Normally, if I don't qualify as well as I think I can, I seem to carry a little chip on my shoulder for the race, and that normally helps me out.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game.

I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.