Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.
I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.
I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.
I'll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.
I'm very hard on myself. If it's a throw that I missed that I know I can make, that's something that I have to correct.
Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
I'm always going to be my worst critic.
Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.
Although I'm very competitive, I'm also very critical of myself.
I try to not focus on what people expect from me.
I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.
Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
I expect a lot for myself.
I think it's the opportunity to continue breaking records, either set by other people or by myself. I think that's what pushes me to always make the most of myself and be very demanding on myself.
I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.
At the start of every season, I always asked myself - am I meeting my own standards? Can I still do it? I didn't want to come to the conclusion that I couldn't during a season.
My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
