Sammy Sosa Quotes

We know that if you have a good game, you are God, and if you misplace five passes in a row, they want to kick you out of Madrid. You have to find the middle ground.

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.

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

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

When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.

A lot of people say now, 'John Cena doesn't work.' Well, John Cena does the things that people go to see John Cena do, and he doesn't take a lot of risks.

When shots are going for six and you're playing well, everyone is trying to big you up. Mis=hit one, get out, all the negative people come out.

When you are one of the best coaches in the world, it is normal to attract bad reviews if you lose a couple of games.

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.

When you are the champion, you are there to be shot at. It doesn't bother me what people say.

When you win you're going to get fans chanting your name and when you don't do great they're going to give you stick.

Since the Olympics in London, people say, 'Greg's won again. That's what we all expect. Of course he wins.'

I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.

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.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

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.

'Don't worry about it, and you'll be great,' said nobody, ever.

With whatever I do, there's always going to be hate. There's always going to be people who are going to say, 'He's not as good as his dad.'

People who come to see me have expectations. If I don't live up to those expectations, I'd be a failure.

A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that's down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.

I always talk about, like, with end-of-game situations, making and missing big shots, I know I can shoulder that. I can live with having the success of the playoffs and having a huge failure. I know I can deal with it.