Jonny Bairstow Quotes

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

You don't need to be criticised to play well or things like that.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I'm self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn't mean I will bring myself down, ever.

I just have to continue to prepare and try to be the best guy I can be every Sunday, whether that's coming off a good game or a bad game.

Over the course of six amateur fights and two professional fights I learned a lot about how to get things done, how to pick myself up after disappointment, how to work through frustration and how to process moments of success.

When I play bad, I don't get too down on myself. When I play good, I don't get too hot.

Every player usually watches their clips back of how they play: mistakes, duels, things that are specific for your game. I wanted to be proud of that and I wanted to see it in person, I suppose, because in the past I have had a lot of criticism for things that I have done.

As always, I keep my head up, look objectively at all the matches I played, see where I can improve, bits and pieces, and, you know, get ready as quick as I can.

When I first started playing international cricket, people around me started telling me what was being said. And you're never as good as anybody says you are. I try to stay quite logical about things.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

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.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.