David de Gea Quotes

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

A lot of kids my age can make a lot of mistakes, but college athletes that are in the spotlight, you have to grow up so much faster than regular students or regular kids your age because you are a public figure, so you get one shot, sometimes two.

If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.

Playing for the Bulls, playing for big organizations, like Boston, you're going to be judged from Day One. It's part of it. You signed up for it.

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.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

Just because you are on TV, it doesn't mean you're not going to make mistakes.

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

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.

Being manager means living in the middle of the media attention, through praise and critics. This is something I live with. It's intense and very demanding.

Being chief selector has been the most challenging role of my cricket career, as I was heavily criticised for my decisions, and I couldn't respond much.

With United the spotlight is always on and there's always going to be that pressure, no matter what the game is.

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.

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.

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.

After any game you're going to get the love, the hate: That's just what comes with being a professional athlete.

I understand that we're paid a lot of money and we're in the limelight. When things don't go well, there's deserved criticism.

You can be as good as you want with your feet, but when you're making mistakes, the opinions will change immediately.

In public life, criticism cannot be avoided completely.

I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'

As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.