Gareth Barry Quotes

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

Criticism comes with the territory when you don't win games.

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.

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don't achieve the same again.

There's gonna be stretches where I don't play as well. People are gonna be talking bad about me and not always on my side and cheering me on.

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

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

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

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

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

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.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.

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

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

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.

Never was I booed.

I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.

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.

I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.

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.

When you play this game, you're not just playing for yourself and your fans. You also play for a name you have to represent. You have a family that's hoping you do good every single day.

With whatever I do, there's always going to be hate. There's always going to be people who are going to say, 'He's not as good as his dad.'

I knew there was going to be pressure on me with the captaincy. I knew people would be writing about my performances more than anyone else's, but that's not a problem because I have my dad telling me about my performance every single game, and he is my biggest critic.