Son Heung-min Quotes

If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.

I always feel like I can play better.

Hopefully I can be one of the best midfielders in the world. That's what drives me on: to try and achieve that and to try and go on and win many things.

I put pressure on myself because I want to be the best player.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

What drives me is trying to be perfect.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

You only feel as good as your last sketch.

I don't want to surpass Messi.

Zidane is a Real Madrid legend. He teaches us things in every training session - even just by playing with us.

This is something you learn as soon as you walk through the doors at Old Trafford: that you're never better than your last performance. You always have to improve on your last performance.

Everyone has their own traits but if you are being compared to players like Rio Ferdinand then you must be doing something well and hopefully I can keep that going.

For young people who are football players, Ronaldo should be the best in the world. He is the best example to look at because he trains to the fullest and has talent.

Arsenal have always been one of the best clubs in the world, so to even be a part of the club from a young age I've always had to give my best.

I've been a guy who's never really been satisfied. Work hard, try to figure out ways to improve, try to figure out ways to sustain a certain level of play.

I can't practice every practice or play every play like, 'Oh, I'm trying to get in the Hall of Fame.'

As a footballer, I'm never satisfied with where I'm at.

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

Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.

A sprinter is never satisfied; otherwise, he is not a sprinter.

I don't have anything against United. Playing them won't make me run any faster or try any harder.