Rio Ferdinand Quotes

I'm very critical of myself and I know the levels I want to achieve so I'm very hard on myself. So the staff and players are very hard on me as well, which is what I want as I want to get to as high a level as possible.

That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

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

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

I am tough on myself. It's just how I am. I hold myself to a standard.

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

If you have any ambitions to improve and be a world-class side, you have to be very tough on yourselves.

I will put pressure on myself to play good every game.

I have a lot of expectations on myself. That's important.

No one puts more pressure on themselves than me as far as an individual thing.

Anytime someone expects something from me, I expect about five times more from myself.

It's not me feeling pressure, it's just me putting pressure on myself if I don't do my best, and I know I can do better.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

I feel like I put pressure on myself to perform well and to play well and to do well. That's what I expect of myself. It's not always going to happen, but I can certainly sort of put myself in the position where I can get the best out of myself.

I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.

I've always tried to set my standards high on a daily basis.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.