Not Good Enough Quotes

By Alan Reiner – July 21, 2024

‘I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.’ – J. Cole

‘And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.’ – Isaac Asimov

‘I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I’ve made some bad choices.’ – Amy Grant

‘I go to sleep every single night thinking I’m not good enough. I really do. I don’t know if that’s healthy or not. But I really do have a fear of not being good, and I don’t like that.’ – Diana Taurasi

‘If something is not good enough, stop doing it.’ – Jonathan Ive

‘There’s too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin’ to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there’s a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you’re not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.’ – Alicia Keys

‘Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.’ – Brene Brown

‘If we went by the world’s definition of who I’m supposed to be because I look weird… ‘Well, surely, this guy can’t have a productive life, surely, he doesn’t have a sense of humor. Surely, he can’t love life.’ We stereotype people in this world. And so… if the world thinks you’re not good enough, it’s a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘It’s not good enough for us to have generations of kids that… look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.’ – Burt Rutan

‘Sometimes you might feel like you’re not good enough or unique enough, but everyone is! Everyone has different personalities.’ – Astrid S

‘The worst thing about that kind of prejudice… is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.’ – Nina Simone

‘I want ‘Scars to Your Beautiful’ to reach different types of women. The girl I am talking about, it’s me, it’s you – it’s every girl who has struggled with feeling not good enough. I want to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.’ – Alessia Cara

‘Every opportunity that comes your way, you can’t take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can’t be such an elitist, to say no, that’s not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.’ – Chris Klein

‘And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.’ – Mackenzie Astin

‘Don’t let anyone tell you that you’re not good enough. Don’t let anyone tell you that you’re too short, you’re too fat, you’re too thin, you’re too ugly – that’s nonsense.’ – Bradley Walsh

‘It is not good enough for things to be planned – they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.’ – Walt Kelly

‘A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I’m not good enough.’ – Laura Jane Grace

‘We’re all different, so even though someone is getting a skill before you, it doesn’t mean that you’re not good enough; it just means you have to wait a little bit, and the skill will come when it comes.’ – Laurie Hernandez

‘All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don’t let anybody crush your dream.’ – Patti LaBelle

‘Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.’ – Max Aaron

‘I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Never think that you’re not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.’ – Anthony Trollope

‘Every time I looked in the mirror, it was like, ‘You’re not good enough.’ ‘There’s always someone more popular.’ ‘There’s always someone more gifted in music.” – Brian Welch

‘Am I a racist? No. That simple. And if that’s not good enough for you, too bad.’ – Mark Fuhrman

‘Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, ‘You’re not good enough,’ or, ‘You can’t do this or that.’ You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.’ – Baker Mayfield

‘I think people who become compulsive about fitness or eating right, a lot of the time it’s out of fear that they’re going to lose control or that they’re not good enough, so I think anything done out of fear or motivated by fear is often unhealthy.’ – Mark Manson

‘I write music just for me. I’m certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it’s quiet.’ – Alex O’Loughlin

‘If I’m working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I’m pretty good, but I’m not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.’ – Steve Albini

‘There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.’ – Rachel Platten

‘I’m not good enough to be playin’ much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.’ – Johnny Winter

‘I don’t mind someone saying I’m not good enough. It hurts more when someone says you’re faking an injury.’ – Luol Deng

‘That’s something that drives me on – wanting to prove people wrong. Because the amount of people who have told me, ‘no, you’re not good enough.’ A lot of people fall at that hurdle. But I just kept getting up and looking for that one person who said yes.’ – Glenn Murray

‘I’m trying to get every experience possible in a studio environment, because I want to be comfortable there. There are people that I dream of working with, and I don’t want to walk into that situation feeling like I’m not good enough.’ – Amber Mark

‘Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they’re not good enough, too.’ – Alessia Cara

‘Sir Stirling Moss, who said that women don’t have the mental aptitude to take part in F1, is from a different generation. There’s no reason why women can’t rise to the top in F1. If you’re not good enough you don’t survive.’ – Susie Wolff

‘If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. ‘It didn’t fit’ is not good enough.’ – Thomas G. Stemberg

‘I hate bullies. I hate them. I’m not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.’ – Andrew Vachss

‘It’s not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we’re not good enough, that we must live up to someone else’s standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.’ – Elle Macpherson

‘I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you can’t see beyond it.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru

‘I grew up with sports, but I was definitely not good enough to become a professional athlete – I just loved the storytelling aspect of it.’ – Molly Qerim

‘My biggest fear is that I’m not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I’ve been battling for years that says, ‘You’re not really talented enough. You don’t really deserve this.” – Rachel Platten

‘The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.’ – Michael Korda

‘Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it’s already been covered by the media, and if it’s not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?’ – Evan Hunter

‘I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they’re not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, ‘I’m ruining my child’s life.” – Daisy Donovan

‘I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I’m just not good enough.’ – Shawn Ashmore

‘All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.’ – Bryan Robson

‘It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.’ – Floyd Abrams

‘It’s either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.’ – Ninette de Valois

‘I can’t do all that riddly diddly stuff. I’m not good enough. It’s all about not playing.’ – Will Champion

‘I’m not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.’ – Ritchie Blackmore

‘Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.’ – Gary Oldman

‘Critics can be your most important friend. I don’t read criticism of my stuff only because when it’s bad, it’s rough-and when it’s good, it’s not good enough.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today’s fans.’ – Franz Beckenbauer

‘But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I’ll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work’s not good enough to sell.’ – Howard Finster

‘I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.’ – Leslie Caron

‘It’s not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don’t mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we’re not sure that it does.’ – George Wald

‘Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.’ – Michael McCaul

‘What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I’m going to talk about later, was that when you’re there, it’s not good enough to be there, when you’re there, you better walk away with that ring.’ – Don Shula

‘With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It’s not good enough to think, ‘This is the best we can expect from this president’.’ – Barbara Boxer

‘We’re in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.’ – Edward Felten

‘When I finish a picture I don’t show it to anyone if I feel it’s not good enough yet. I’ve learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it’s the biggest success if they like it.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.’ – Russell Crowe

‘My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That’s just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a ‘B’ because a ‘B’ was not good enough.’ – Troian Bellisario

‘To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It’s like, ‘Oh, if I’m not good enough for that, I’m not good enough for anything.” – Cam Gigandet

‘I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn’t going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn’t good enough. That’s not a bad thing. You see this ‘X Factor’ generation of kids now who don’t accept that they’re not good enough.’ – Brendan Coyle

‘My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It’s not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.’ – Wolf Blitzer

‘I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.’ – Baz Luhrmann

‘Growing up in the entertainment industry, I’ve had a lot of people tell me I’m not good enough.’ – Renee Olstead

‘I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.’ – Frida Giannini

‘I couldn’t do rap. I was trying. I don’t know how. I’m not good enough to know.’ – Dee Dee Ramone

‘I don’t even know why I’m saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I’m not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn’t the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.’ – Trent Reznor

‘I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That’s what I’m most proud of. I can’t go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I’ve done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I’m certainly not sitting around thinking about it.’ – Jimmy Connors

‘Models are some of the most insecure people I’ve ever met. They’re constantly being told they’re not good enough. You’ve really got to practice loving yourself.’ – Miranda Kerr

‘I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, ‘Do you know who I am?” – Herschel Walker

‘I know it wouldn’t seem like I’ve had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, ‘That’s not good enough.” – Daniel Radcliffe

‘The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it, get to the end of it. And, you know, if it’s not good enough, write another one.’ – Teju Cole

‘I don’t think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done – even The Saturdays one – was a hit. If it’s not good enough, then he won’t do it.’ – Olly Murs

‘I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.’ – Stan Wawrinka

‘Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing – by the way, if it’s not good enough, make it yourself and post it.’ – Warren Littlefield

‘Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they’ll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I’m sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.’ – Bobby Knight

‘Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of pharmaceutical conglomerates. More than that, we pay too much for health care, it’s not good enough, and the system is too complex. We need alternatives.’ – Michael Specter

‘I’m not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.’ – Nick McDonell

‘We shouldn’t be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.’ – Jonathan Ive

‘Being in Los Angeles is this brutal awakening, where I feel not good enough as soon as I walk into a room, and I’m wearing the wrong thing, or I don’t have enough make up on. It’s all about image.’ – Mary Lambert

‘With photography, I always think that it’s not good enough.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘It’s not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there’s an idea that women don’t matter in the world, then all women are diminished.’ – Cherie Blair

‘You can always argue you’re never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you’re going to lose players, and you’re not good enough then, either.’ – Jeffrey Lurie

‘We see these cute, perfect bombshells that make me feel like I’m not good enough, I’m not pretty enough. I don’t think I could pull off playing a person like that, and do I want to? I don’t know.’ – Sarah Steele

‘The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.’ – Elizabeth Thornton

‘If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win – which they probably won’t – you shouldn’t do it because it’s not healthy if they get the feeling that they’re not good enough or they’re not worthy.’ – Olivia Culpo

‘There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, ‘I got Jesus! I ain’t afraid!’ But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I’m not good enough or that I’m not going to handle something right.’ – Tasha Smith

‘If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you’re not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there is no room in showbiz for a dancing violinist – well then, by all means, pull out your eye patch, my friend, and take to the high seas.’ – Lindsey Stirling

‘If you walk into a room, and there is no one that’s not like you there, whether it’s a woman or a person of color, anyone that’s different from you, you should be able to say this is a problem. We need allies in that room to say that video, this room, this company, these ideas, this film, this whatever, this is not right – this is not good enough.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘I am pleased I went from fourth back into a medal position, but bronze is not good enough for me.’ – Greg Rutherford

‘I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can’t write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.’ – Hakan Nesser

‘I had a somewhat charmed life. I was brought up at the BBC. I did meet so many people cleverer than myself in those years. Often, I was slapped down and made to feel not good enough.’ – Stephen Frears

‘I don’t understand the lack of respect for amazing players when people say they are not good enough for me.’ – Pep Guardiola

‘I’m not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.’ – Damian Lewis

‘My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.’ – Kapil Sibal

‘I just keep following the good writing. I’m not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I admire them for it, but I cannot. I will go down with the ship.’ – Paul Sparks

‘I’m a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, I know this stuff.’ And the principal is like, ‘Just throw the video in and call it a day,’ and I’m like, ‘That’s not good enough. I want these kids to know what it’s like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.” – Craig Robinson

‘I was trying to get an audition for ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ and they wouldn’t see me. And I was crestfallen, because I really needed money. And to be told you’re not good enough to be seen by ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ is a tough blow.’ – Adam Scott

‘This is a grueling profession. Either you can’t get work, or you can’t get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it’s not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.’ – Carol Kane

‘There’s something to be said about just being vulnerable. Every woman has gone through something in her life that has been an image issue, or it has been something where somebody told her she’s not good enough. And every woman can relate to that.’ – Ashley Graham

‘To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he’s just not good enough.’ – Ricky Gervais

‘The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of color. Nope. Not good enough.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘I felt like the sample size was right, and my body was wrong. I basically ended up going into battle with my body, and that’s a daily battle every time you look in the mirror. Every time you see an image of a successful model or someone who you look up to who doesn’t look like you, you think you’re not good enough.’ – Iskra Lawrence

‘We want to show all of our customers that the industry standards that we had been employing before – which are considered great standards – were not good enough.’ – Steve Ells

‘All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, ‘Do better. That’s not good enough. Do better.’ And so, that keeps me up at night.’ – Abi Morgan

‘If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?’ – Cornelia Parker

‘With my songs, the question is always, ‘Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?’ That’s the litmus test. If I can, then it’s a song I ought to record. If I can’t, it’s probably not good enough.’ – Shawn Colvin

‘When I was growing up, I wasn’t particularly great at anything. I was in my own world, and my teachers felt I’d never reach my potential. Even in sports, I’d only play team games because I felt I was not good enough to outshine anyone.’ – Dulquer Salmaan

‘A lot of fitness has that very masculine energy and drive, and that never worked for me. I want to be challenged. I don’t want to be told that I’m terrible and that I suck and that I’m not good enough – that’s not motivating.’ – Mary Helen Bowers

‘My mother is very positive and encouraging and nurturing, as a mother should be. She’s my auditioning partner. She says when it’s not good enough; she says when I’m ready.’ – John David Washington

‘I’ve always felt very insecure being around in-laws, even my siblings – like the guy who made a bad decision, or the guy who would never just fess up that I’m not good enough to make it, or I don’t have what it takes.’ – Walker Hayes

‘I never thought I’d be good enough. I really didn’t. There’s probably some fans out there who say I’m still not good enough, and that’s OK.’ – Big Show

‘When you are a young actor, you’re imbued with the high purpose of your art. You think, ‘They hire me for my talent; if that’s not good enough, then they can hire somebody else.’ Later, you realize that your body is as much a part of what you do as your talent.’ – Charlton Heston

‘I was told, ‘You are not beautiful and glamorous enough,’ ‘Oh no, you’re too serious an actor…’ ‘You’re not good enough an actor,’ ‘You are not so and so’s daughter.’ I was even told, ‘You are not a big, marketable name.” – Taapsee Pannu

‘You’d rather have a good headshot that cost you a little more but that’s going to last than pay less money for a headshot that’s not good enough.’ – Daniela Ruah

‘When it comes to United, if you don’t win everything, it’s not good enough.’ – David de Gea

‘In order to make history, you have to win the World Cup. It’s not good enough just to reach a final.’ – Carlos Tevez

‘Rejection doesn’t always mean I’m not good enough.’ – Vincent Rodriguez III

‘I always wanted to be a Broadway girl. But once I got Tony-nominated, it really messed with me, because it was like, yes, I’m getting this affirmation that you’re right where you’re supposed to be, but there was still this voice saying, ‘You’re not good enough.” – Danielle Brooks

‘There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes – because they are not good enough to make the record. A lot of people forget that.’ – Mike Patton

‘I suppose I was still optimistic and unrealistic, and I just hoped we could keep going as we were. But no. That was not good enough for Stephen, so off he went. Those were hard times. They really were. But then, I suppose, divorce is always hard.’ – Jane Hawking

‘We definitely did not write our own vows. We’re actors – people write things for us. We’re not good enough for that.’ – Italia Ricci

‘It’s not good enough to say we value diversity and then underrepresent women and minorities.’ – Brian Krzanich

‘Good is not good enough at United.’ – Memphis Depay

‘What you put in, you usually get out. If you are not good enough on the day, fine, but if you put in everything you have, you usually get a decent result. When you lose, it motivates you to go again, not dwell on the past.’ – Alun Wyn Jones

‘We accept that, in one way now, if you are 27, 28 and still playing for Ajax, you are probably not good enough for the top of Europe because players want to go to the top in Europe.’ – Edwin van der Sar

‘I remember going to audition in Toronto for a girl group. I was 15 or 16. I went in with my guitar. I had the wickedest nerves, man! I was decent, but not good enough.’ – Jessie Reyez

‘In the SAS, if you’re not good enough, you’re graded out of it.’ – Ant Middleton

‘I don’t get too much work to begin with, and whatever I get is mostly not good enough.’ – Dimple Kapadia

‘If I’m not the best D-lineman, it’s not good enough for me.’ – Myles Garrett

‘If you don’t get better, staying the same is probably not good enough.’ – Chris Mullin

‘Over a long time, I’ve honestly had enough of people saying Arsenal’s defence is not good enough.’ – Wojciech Szczesny

‘The chip comes from people saying I’m not good enough, or I can’t score, or I’m not a real basketball player.’ – Willie Cauley-Stein

‘I don’t want people to say, ‘So, what do you think about that Cher?’ and for them to reply, ‘She’s okay.’ Okay is not good enough. I want them to either love me or to completely despise me – I mean, call me all the names under the sun. I love it.’ – Cher Lloyd

‘Game Over is a very frustrating game convention. In short, it means, ‘If you were not good enough or did not play the game the way the designer intended you to play, you should play again until you do it right.’ What kind of story could a writer tell where the characters could play the same scene ten times until the outcome is right?’ – David Cage

‘I understand that feeling of insecurity, like you’re not good enough as you are, and you need to change.’ – Shannon Purser

‘When I retired first time around, injury had beaten me, and I hated that. Now I realise I’m no longer good enough. And I can handle that. It’s fine that I’m not good enough.’ – Andrew Flintoff

‘I don’t want to just keep playing for the sake of playing. The day I realise I’m not good enough, I’ll go. I want to play as long as I can – not just to make up the numbers but to play with utmost passion.’ – Imran Tahir

‘I have had it all over the years, being told I’m not good enough. So whenever the chance comes I always try and prove I should be starting.’ – Alex Iwobi

‘Everybody walks around talking about, ‘Sam Allardyce’s style is not good enough, he doesn’t play the right way’ and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me. People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that – it believes that lie sometimes.’ – Sam Allardyce

‘I write good songs out of fear… fear of failure. Because if they’re not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.’ – Ezra Furman

‘I’ve worked under a lot of managers, whether it’s the national team or at St Mirren and everyone has their moments. I think it is important, you can’t just let things pass if they are not good enough.’ – John McGinn

‘They used to have selection days for all the local kids and I went to these trials three times and got turned down every time. On the third time I was so upset because I thought I was not good enough. I was eight years old and I had the feeling, ‘That’s it, I don’t want to play for Ajax any more!” – Ryan Babel

‘You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don’t, suddenly from the fans it’s, ‘You’re not good enough to play for our football club.” – Mark Noble

‘What you see in my script may not be what’s in the film. Sometimes it’s a very scary thing, when I have to shoot in the morning and the scene’s not good enough, and it’s only me there, and there’s no signal to even call the others and say, think of a better line.’ – Sriram Raghavan

‘It’s not good enough just to hold your head high because you’re one of the highest-paid players in the NHL. It’s not good enough to be one of the most popular guys in the NHL or to have a social media following. What are you trying to accomplish?’ – P.K. Subban

‘Growing up in a system that tells you just because of your skin colour you are not good enough – you learn at a very young age to toughen up.’ – Motsi Mabuse

‘Every day I receive messages that I’m not good enough, that I should lose my job.’ – Jess Phillips

‘It’s my music. If it’s not good enough, then that’s how it will be.’ – Conchita Wurst

‘I had a coach when I was getting recruited say maybe you should play basketball at a Division III level, because you’re not good enough to play football in college.’ – Adam Thielen

‘I love when people doubt me. I love when people don’t think that I’m good enough to play at a certain level, not good enough to be a starter, things like that. That’s the stuff that drives me.’ – Adam Thielen

‘I do believe I’m not good enough to be a professional dancer. I believe that in my heart.’ – Michael Waltrip

‘Women need to make sure they know what they’re talking about. You can’t just plant yourself in front of a camera and be pretty because that’s just not good enough. It’s just not a respectable way about building one’s career – in sports or anywhere on TV.’ – Michelle Beadle

‘Paper Doll’ is about being bullied, and about having someone in your life who is constantly trying to put you down, and trying to make you feel like you are not good enough being who you are.’ – Bea Miller

‘I do feel that over the years from watching programmes that tell people ‘you’re not good enough,’ I just don’t like it.’ – Ainsley Harriott

‘I still dream of having a lifestyle brand but it’s not good enough to have that selfish dream when your kids are getting older and have their own interests.’ – Holly Willoughby

‘It’s not good enough to announce ‘I know my rights’ if you aren’t prepared to accept that you have responsibilities to society and your fellow citizens as well. And if people don’t live up to those responsibilities to our society, they will not be able to hide behind their rights.’ – Chris Grayling

‘My best friend used to make fun of me about the camps I wasn’t invited to, and I used to get mad. He was just always better, always the favorite. I was always the one in the shadow that everybody was like, ‘He’s not good enough. Might not even make it to college.” – Avery Bradley

‘When I look back, my journey isn’t about a small-town kid from Hazleton traveling around the country, but about the years I put in to get to this place in my life. Playing and finding out you’re not good enough, managing in the minors, working in player development, coaching and learning from the best minds in baseball.’ – Joe Maddon

‘We are obsessed in England with the idea that we’re not good enough at retaining the ball, and that our players treat it like a hot potato.’ – Jermaine Jenas

‘There comes a time when coming off the bench just doesn’t cut it anymore, it’s not enough time and it’s not good enough.’ – Steve Nicol

‘The real world doesn’t tell you that you were unbelievable after every match. A lot of times they are people that criticise you telling that you are not good enough. That’s just football. You have to be able to take it with a smile, and analyse it truthfully, and use it as motivation.’ – Bruno Fernandes

‘Comments like ‘he’s not committed’ or ‘he’s not good enough’ appear as soon as you are not 110 per cent. I find it quite annoying how people read into stuff and form their own opinions.’ – Jofra Archer

‘I see myself as a Premier League player. If I see myself as a Championship player, that’s not good enough. You have to aim higher and if you come just short then it’s not too bad.’ – Ivan Toney

‘McGregor is a good fighter, has a flashy striking, but he’s not good enough to beat Aldo.’ – Patricio Freire

‘As an African-American athlete, you get discouraged that this type of thing is still condoned in people’s lives. You look at a situation where we’re good enough to work for you, but not good enough to be around you. To build a franchise, good enough to build business for you, but not good enough to mingle amongst your circles.’ – Jermaine O’Neal

‘I have this firm belief that when I step on the field that I believe I’m the best player on the field, but I also believe that I’m not good enough yet. Because of that, I need to make sure that I’m striving to improve every aspect of my game.’ – Cooper Kupp

‘We’re not developing pitchers the right way. We’re asking them to go as hard as you can, and as short as you can, and that’s not good enough.’ – John Smoltz

‘I did exactly what I told everyone I wasn’t gonna do. I let Jon Jones sit back and be Jon Jones. I guess sometimes you go in there and it’s not your night, I guess. But that’s just not good enough for me. I don’t know, I just couldn’t pull the trigger and when I did, I didn’t combo up like I was supposed to.’ – Anthony Smith

‘There’s so much policy made on behalf of people with disability. You know, not inclusive of us. And that’s not good enough.’ – Dylan Alcott

‘I was relegated at Charlton. At one point we got out of the relegation zone but we then lost two on the spin and I think we just knew then. We just couldn’t get a result and you reach a point where draws are not good enough.’ – Darren Bent

‘For me, Alex Iwobi doesn’t do it for me. His end product’s not good enough, he doesn’t score enough goals, doesn’t create enough goals so he’s not really doing anything.’ – Darren Bent

‘I’m just funny enough as a comedian to know I’m not good enough to be a comedian.’ – John Popper

‘There are sometimes managers that are not good enough for some groups but there are also some groups that are not good enough for a manager.’ – Paolo di Canio

‘At first, you don’t do cosmetic surgery because you’re not good enough yet. So you start out doing reconstructive surgery, which is really fun. And then you get good enough and people start letting you do cosmetic surgery, and I did that.’ – Terry Dubrow

‘Any United side talking about accepting the top four is just not good enough.’ – Darren Fletcher