Motivation Quote by Paul Gascoigne

There is a stubborn tenderness in Gascoigne's "I'm going to do things when they are right for me" because it reads like self-help and self-defense at the same time. Coming from a player whose career was as famous for injuries, chaos, and tabloid-fed vulnerability as for moments of impossible brilliance, the line isn't a manifesto of selfishness so much as a bid to reclaim time from everyone who's tried to own it: managers, media, fans, even the mythology of "Gazza" as a national character.

The sentence is built to resist negotiation. "I'm going to" is a future tense with muscle, a pre-emptive rebuttal to pressure. "Things" is deliberately unspecific, a protective blur that keeps journalists from pinning him to a timeline: return date, transfer decision, rehab plan, apology tour. Then comes the key pivot: "right for me". Not "right" in some moral sense, not "right for the team", not "right for the story". It's personal timing as legitimacy, which is radical in a sports culture that treats athletes like public utilities and frames personal struggle as either inspiration content or inconvenience.

In context, the quote carries the faint echo of someone who's been burned by rushing: playing through pain, drinking through stress, performing stability on demand. It works because it refuses the usual redemption arc. Instead of promising change for the crowd, Gascoigne claims the smallest, hardest boundary: autonomy.