Brendan Rodgers Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

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.

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

Nothing you could do would make me mad. You're a complete official failure.

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're not winning in your last couple of years, it gets frustrating because where's your motivation?

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.

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.

Missing a game or getting a little bit of a bump up or getting a scolding once in a while puts everybody in their right place.

If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that's professional sport.

Any crowd that gets on your back makes it difficult, but you are going to get that if things aren't going well. The fans have got their right to give their opinion.

If you ask any footballer, if you haven't won a game all season you're not going to be confident.

As a striker, what you got used to on a daily basis, it is to be applauded when you score goals. When the opposite happens, it's difficult.

You don't want to let people down, and that's so hard because you're never going to please everybody. There's always going to be someone that's a naysayer.

Captains are always criticised.

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.

I can't afford to do the highlight dunk and miss it because, if I do that, I'll be sitting right on the bench beside the coaches.

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

I have always said we are going to play well and we going to play badly. And I have not got issues when people criticise as long as we don't play well. That's part and parcel of the game. I love it and that's how it should be.

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