Edwin van der Sar Quotes

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.

Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live.

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

We know that if you have a good game, you are God, and if you misplace five passes in a row, they want to kick you out of Madrid. You have to find the middle ground.

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.

When you are one of the best coaches in the world, it is normal to attract bad reviews if you lose a couple of games.

My philosophy for football is to be happy with what you're doing. When they say that you're one of the strongest in the world, you need to carry on in the same way as you do when they say that you're dead.

We don't just say this every spring training - 'Playoffs, World Series.' You've got to do it.

I love watching England and what they are doing. But I can promise you I've not thought about anything that high.

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

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

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

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

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

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

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

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.