Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.
In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.
I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.
I'm a big Knicks fan, and I will tell a professional basketball player that they suck because they didn't do what I wanted them to do.
I think Georges St-Pierre is a joke.
I don't think we know who a lot of these athletes are. We think we do, but they're never allowed to be themselves. Because the minute they try, people are saying, What's wrong with him? Why is he drawing attention to himself?
Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.
When you're a quarterback in this league, you're going to be talked about and it's going to be on a weekly basis.
I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.
Michael Jordan was criticized. Barry Bonds was criticized. Some of the greats in every profession have been criticized. Not everything is peaches and cream.
The 'New York Daily News' called me the most reviled athlete ever in sports history in New York. I don't listen to them.
You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.
I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.
Black athletes are always under more scrutiny.
Julian Edelman. He's the worst dancer.
Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.
Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.
Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.
I think, in general, not only in Formula One but just in a lot of sports, when younger people come in and they do well, there's always a bit of talk going on. I think that's pretty normal.
Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
Criticism is part of football. Everybody gets it at some point. I have had it, most players do.
If you're a QB in the NFL, you'll be subjected to criticism.
