Bryan Robson Quotes

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

To some people I'll always be the bad guy.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

Some people will always hate the name Blackwater. They might not like me.

I respect Mark Hughes and what he's done for me but I heard some things when he was talking about me and they were not good things.

When you're a sports figure and people dislike you, they're going to look for the negatives.

There's not one person at any club I've been at who would turn around and say I'm a bad egg, it's only been at Aston Villa. That speaks volumes.

When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.

UCB has been compared to a cult and a pyramid scheme, and it's all that stuff.

I have to embrace the fact people find me divisive, but I find it remarkable. I was very disturbed by the hatred 'Damsels in Distress' received.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

In my position, I'm always going to get a bit of flak. I take it with a grain of salt.

Everybody walks around talking about, 'Sam Allardyce's style is not good enough, he doesn't play the right way' and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me. People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that - it believes that lie sometimes.

Joey Porter is not one of the people I have respect for. His unprofessionalism is ridiculous.

People are going to take shots at you for everything you did bad, and they forget about all the good things you did. They do it to everyone. They're going to do it to me, they've done it to all of them. They did it to Tom Landry. Are you kidding me? Tom Landry? With the fedora? Come on. They did it to Tom Landry.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

Everybody gon' say something. I'd be worried if they said nothing.

Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

There has been lots of things said about me over the years. I am happy to comment on people's opinion in football I respect, but Tony Cascarino is a man I certainly do not respect, for a lot of reasons, and if I told you, you would be shocked. So the day I worry about Tony Cascarino will be a very sad day of my life.