Quotes About Self-assessment

For me, after every game you look yourself in the mirror and ask 'what can i do better, what can i do to help this team?' Then you go back to the drawing board and you go back and you work hard.

No way in, go in, measure.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

I have a hard time watching myself.

What have I learned today? What did I contribute or improve? What did I enjoy?

Is it not astonishing that the price generally put upon any article by the world is that which the owner puts on it?—and that this is specially true of a man's own self?

The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

We talked to a lot of psychologists who were working in business schools who put men and women in front of scientific reasoning quizzes. The women will routinely think they have done less well than they have done. The men will think they have done better than they have done. In reality, they have done about the same.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

If I went out there and felt the best I ever felt and fought the best I've ever fought and lost, I would have to reconsider things and think differently. I would have a different outlook on my career.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.

I play with a lot of guys who say they're a five handicap, and they shoot 110. And then you play with guys who say they are a 20 and they shoot 75.

What appeals to me in a project is, I'll read the script, and I'll be like, 'Is this something that's new and something I haven't experienced before?' And if so, 'Am I gonna be able to handle it? Am I gonna be up to this challenge?' That's what I try to do.

I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.

Well, I'm always a bit harsh about the things I'm doing.

No one thinks more highly of me than probably myself. I think that's fine.

One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary

'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

People can say what they want to say, but at the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror. I know how hard I fought. I know how many storylines I pitched. I know how hard I worked in the ring.

I'd certainly like to feel I'm a better player than three titles, but it is what it is.

I train with young guys in the offseason just to be honest and keep myself sure, to let myself know if I'm ready or will I be ready.