Bobby Clarke Quotes

People are human. People have failings. It's unfortunate people want to keep piling on people's failings.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

I get criticized for anything I do.

I try not to judge because I've been judged a heck of a lot, and it don't feel nice.

Mr. Starr, you’re the expert on unfair questions. If you tell me it’s an unfair question, I’ll withdraw it.

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.

No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled.

It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.

I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.

I resent the implication that there was some kind of performance review process going on. They had other things on the table…. When all else feels they should try the truth.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

Those whose ox the press gores cry foul every time.

To have to answer anything about what that slimeball says is just too much.

If you get anything done, you will be criticized

Yours of the 23rd, is received; and I am constrained to say it is difficult to answer so ugly a letter in good temper. I am, as you intimate, losing much of the great confidence I placed in you, not from any act or omission of yours touching the public service, up to the time you were sent to Leavenworth, but from the flood of grumbling dispatches and letters I have seen from you since.

When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the music is not an open court and a fair trial.'

It is wrong for any person to ever judge someone in any situation saying, 'Well, why didn't you try to run? Why didn't you scream? Why didn't you try to do something?' That is so wrong and, frankly, offensive to even ask that question.

I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.

I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.

During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.