Ernesto Valverde Quotes

I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

Unfortunately, the manager is always the one who gets under pressure the most.

You make mistakes at the results end of football and you can be out on your ear pretty quickly.

If I got sacked because my results weren't good enough at Everton, I accept it, but getting sacked when they finish eighth, it is ridiculous. In fact, it is ludicrous.

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

As soon as you make mistakes, or you have an off year, even if it's not your fault as a quarterback... I've always said the quarterback and the head coach always get too much blame when you lose and too much credit when you win.

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

If I find you not attending cabinet meetings three times you are out of government.

Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.

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.

If you don't perform, and you're part of the team, whether you're playing your first Test or 50th Test match, criticism goes hand in hand, so that's something you can't really get away from. If you don't perform, you will be criticised.

Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.

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.

When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.

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.

I have to just come to work every single day. That's not just on the field but off the field, because you have little kids looking up to you; your face is the face of this franchise and this university. You have to understand that every decision that you make is going to be criticized.

If there's competition in training, then the training is intense, and then you have the pressure of a weekend that if you don't put in good performances, then your place is maybe up for grabs.

I think all managers have to be so demanding.

You will always be judged as a Liverpool player but, as a captain, you will be judged on what you win, basically. If you're doing well, and the team is winning everything, you become a very good captain.

There's always going to be pressure on your place. It's 11 cricketers. There's always going to be other cricketers outside the team doing well.