I became a trainee and challenged myself in various ways while getting ready for our debut. I’m still trying to push myself.

I have a lot of self-belief, and I think it will happen. I think I will just get better and better. It’s what great players do; they don’t let up on anything. And I wouldn’t do that anyway.

I’ve learned that you should only try to be better than who you were yesterday.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn’t have a unique perspective.

I didn’t learn music because I wanted to become famous or earn a lot of money. It was to follow my father’s advice and learn as much as I could about music.

When I came into Test cricket, I was good but not as good as I am now.

It is a very happy feeling that a legend like Rahul Dravid talks highly about me. But I can’t just sit back and be happy about it. I have to back it up with my performances.

I have had to work really hard at white-ball cricket. It doesn’t come naturally to me, I was a slow batsman; I worked hard on my game and fitness.

Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.

You’re not broken, you’re just becoming.

As a person, I’m just trying to be better than I was yesterday and continue to elevate.

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 know that I need to keep growing as a player.

I’ve always given everything for every team I’ve played for so that the ordinary fans, the people in the stadium, could identify with me. I owe a lot to the fans of Roma, Fiorentina and Argentina. They were the reason I played, my inspiration. I always worked hard to improve my game, to prove to myself that I could be one of the best for as long as possible. To be honest, I couldn’t care less what the others think.

Failure is a stepping stone towards success. Learn from your mistakes and keep pushing forward.

It’s important to push yourself to get better at your craft—whatever that is. It’s important to grow and evolve with each project.

Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Aspire to be better than yesterday, not better than anyone else.

Push your limit to be the best. It’s not about competing with others, it’s about competing with yourself.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Do whatever you have to do. People always want to tell you how to do it. No, do it your way. And don’t ask for like oh how can you do it … do it, figure it out. I figured it out one way or another and I did it.

I’m my own competition, I’m competin’ with myself.

I’m a player who needs to play every week. I’ve got a lot to learn and a lot to prove.

Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength

Only be with somebody if they make you feel like the best version of yourself. You can’t sacrifice yourself for anybody, you know

Spiritual enlightenment and self-protection are more effective than drugs and alcohol, I feel

I admire myself, I try to improve myself. Always trying to improve.

Perfection does not exist — you can always do better and you can always grow.

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists – not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice

We are not our own masters, but instruments in the hands of the forces that created us.

Hopefully I’ve gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. It’s a great outlet. As for myself, I’m not sure who I am. It seems that I change every day.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself

Walk away from it until you’re stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you’ll be better able to cope.

There’s nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can’t prolong

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance

I made sacrifices leaving Argentina, leaving my family to begin a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for soccer, to achieve my dream

I allow myself to fail, I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.

I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be – and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me

In order to build strength, you have to usually come from a lot of weakness