Mickey Rivers Quotes

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.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

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.

No matter how angry people on the outside were when you don't perform well, a coach is 10 times what anyone else is feeling. Nothing digs at you more. But that's part of our business.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

Captains are always criticised.

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

I've always felt comfortable, but in football, there are lows.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

Coaches often sting me to get the best of me. I am used to it.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

We didn't score any runs today. That's not my fault.

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

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.

I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

If you're on the top guy, you're going to get some balls thrown your way.

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.