Sherry Stringfield Quotes

When you win, that's what you're expected to do and when you lose, people get on your back.

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.

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.

People make just as many mistakes when the stakes go up, maybe more.

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.

Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you're not winning you have to be prepared for that. It's part of your job.

If you don't live up to somebody's standards, you get hammered.

Stop taking things personally. Throughout the time with "Kitchen Nightmares" and "Hotel Hell," when they work, you don't get any praise. When they fail, you get blamed. You're f - ed either way, but it doesn't stop me doing them, I think.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

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

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

Win it, or it's start all over around here.

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.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

You get blamed for whatever happens on your watch.

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.

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.

I have so much to live up to as well as live down.