Chris Wilder Quotes

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

Fans were booing me at one point. I just kept working, that's the main thing. I'm not going to let that deteriorate my game.

If you do not play well, it is normal that they criticise you. But criticism is part of the game, so you accept it.

If you lose three or four in a row, people start talking about retirement. They are not used to this sport like they are used to tennis. If you take a look at how many times Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer lost, it's all part of the game. Soccer is no different: teams go through bad times and then rise again.

I had good and bad seasons for Essex. I was a real form player: if I got on a run, I was happy and confident, but if I had a bad trot, I was far too analytical of my game, worried about it too much and my form got worse.

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

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.

There's gonna be stretches where I don't play as well. People are gonna be talking bad about me and not always on my side and cheering me on.

I have always said we are going to play well and we going to play badly. And I have not got issues when people criticise as long as we don't play well. That's part and parcel of the game. I love it and that's how it should be.

There's always going to be pressure, and there's always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.

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

In difficult moments, champions come through, and not by listening to what is being said.

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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.

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

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.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot there? Why didn't you drive?'

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

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

I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.

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.