Billy Koch Quotes

I knew I could play really well in one game, score the winning goal and then, come the next game, I wouldn't play at all or I might come off the bench for the last five minutes. So I was frustrated towards the end of my time at Spurs. I wasn't happy.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks - or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.

I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.

I have developed a nasty habit of losing to the guy who wins the tournament, and that alone makes you think what you could have achieved.

When you don't make the plays that you know you're capable of making, it's frustrating.

It's frustrating not to play well.

There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.

I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

When you make something that you're really proud of, and it doesn't do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn't do well.

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.

I never will watch a meet that I don't do well in. I just don't like to.

It sucks when you do poorly at your job.

I've not always played well for City, but I'd never been the scapegoat, coming off at half-time when in my head I thought I was having a decent game. It was weird, unnatural, it had never happened to me before and it felt like no matter what I did it wasn't good enough any more.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

It was frustrating at Arsenal, obviously. For a year and a half, it went from bad to worse. I could no longer continue like that. I could not bring myself to spend another year at Arsenal and remain a reserve, even a second reserve.

When you don't win anything, at the end of the day, you cannot say it is a good season.

I'm not going to lie: I fell out of love with football for a little bit because I had some good performances but then just didn't get the chance to play on.

Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn't good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.