Luis Enrique Quotes

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.

I know what it means to play for a big club. Big clubs, it's like that: if you win, everything is good. If you lose, it's your fault, especially defenders and goalkeepers.

Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

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

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

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

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

People think that footballers just have a kick around with their mates. If they win, fine; if they don't, that's then fine, too. No pasa nada. No. You have an obligation and responsibility.

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.

Everything falls on the quarterback.

Captains are always criticised.

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

Pitching, if you have a bad start, a lot of the blame is put on you and then you have to sit around and think about it all week. And the same thing with kicking. You either make it or miss and no one is going to make excuses for you. The mentalities of the two are very comparable.

When they take you with the eighth pick, I don't want to say pressure, but you've got a lot of people counting on you.

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.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

In Austria, everything is my fault when we lose. Whatever I do it's not enough.

Any time a team doesn't score points, it's on me.

If you're a starting pitcher, the ball's in your hands and all eyes are you. And when you're kicking, either you missed it or you made it. So there's a lot of parallels in that.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

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 you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.