Sourav Ganguly Quotes

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

In Austria, everything is my fault when we lose. Whatever I do it's not enough.

Any time a team doesn't score points, it's on me.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

I know how prone we are to censure and how ready to blame others for the non-fulfillment of our expectations. This is unbecoming in a generous people, and I grieve to see its expression. The general remedy for the want of success in a military commander is his removal. I have been prompted by these reflections more than once since my return from Pennsylvania to propose to Your Excellency the propriety of selecting another commander for this army.

Leadership means that the person in charge gets second guessed by every little twit with a mouth.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

I knew there was going to be pressure on me with the captaincy. I knew people would be writing about my performances more than anyone else's, but that's not a problem because I have my dad telling me about my performance every single game, and he is my biggest critic.

I never knew a manager that didn't have pressure.

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don't achieve the same again.

It is important for me, no matter whether I lead or not, that I continue my form even in the World Cup. It is important that you get runs because people look up to you, and the team also expects you to get runs being a senior member of the side.

If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that's professional sport.