Payne Stewart Quotes

I'll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.

I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I have to keep testing myself.

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.

Improving, for me, is quite natural as I'm always critical of myself.

My defence, that is something I can better at individually.

I'm always my hardest critic.

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.

There's always things that I can improve on.

I think how I'm playing, not who I'm playing.

Although I'm very competitive, I'm also very critical of myself.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it's always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'This, this, and this I need to improve.' That's how it is.

Sometimes you have to self-scout yourself.

I'm the first one to always criticize myself, and I'm trying to find ways to get better.

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.