Olivier Giroud Quotes

Everyone's just looking at you. They're expecting you to win every game, and it's just not possible.

When you win you're going to get fans chanting your name and when you don't do great they're going to give you stick.

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

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.

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.

Anybody can miss a penalty.

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.

If you win a game, everyone is happy, and if you lose, everyone is watching you.

After you win, people expect you to always play so good. When that doesn't happen, it's hard to deal with.

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

When you are one of the best coaches in the world, it is normal to attract bad reviews if you lose a couple of games.

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.

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

Every time I go on to the court, people expect me to get a medal. It is tough, and I can't win always, but I still have to go out there and give my best.

Anything other than a gold medal will be disappointing.

Brazil doesn't get a lot of gold medals, so whenever I get a chance, everybody expects me to win, and to get second is a big disappointment.

You have to win football matches, and if you don't, you allow people to criticise you.

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that's fine. I think that comes with anything that's challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.

Of course I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can't accept that. Especially when things don't go right for United. It all means so much to me to be succesful here. It drives me crazy at times.

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

I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.

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.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.