Micah Richards Quotes

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

If you play well, you are praised; if you play badly, you are criticised. Everyone should try to manage it the way they want to.

If you are being criticised, and you are unsuccessful, then that can be a low for you. But if you are doing good and still being slammed, then it is good.

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.

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

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

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.

Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It's like playing 'Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.'

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

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

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.

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

This is a grueling profession. Either you can't get work, or you can't get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it's not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.

I had a lot of success for many years, and the critics had been so kind. Sometimes it's good to get cut down to size a little bit.

Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belong. It's incredibly vulnerable to be an actor and also get criticism at a young age when you're formulating who you are. We've seen a lot of people fall victim to that, and it's very unfortunate.

With success always comes criticism. I've been criticized every year of my life.

I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

Coming off all my wins I had a lot of criticism.

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.