Jerry Ferrara Quotes

Everybody is looking for me to fail.

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 thought about all the people that told me I couldn't do it and told me I couldn't get there.

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

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

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

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.

I'd much rather have that pressure than be at the end of the field and no one expecting you to win. That's the kind of pressure that you've got to enjoy and love.

People tend to think when you're at the top, you need bashing down. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

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.

I was told by thousands of people I would never make it.

So many people were ready to write me off as being washed up at 20, I started to believe all that negative stuff myself.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

The only people who try to tell you that you can’t do something, are the people who have failed

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

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.