Diego Simeone Quotes

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

Frankly, you're heading down a dangerous path if you take seriously what people say about you, and I don't read most of it.

I never want to get caught up in praises. Never want to get caught up in people telling me how good I am.

If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

I don't care what people say about me.

Now everyone is a critic.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.

The way I knew I was right about something was the kids got angry. That's very important: you touch that anger.