Mesut Ozil Quotes

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

In football you can take the praise when it comes, but you've got to be ready to take the criticism as well.

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

You know, people hate me or love me and I just don't even bother paying attention to it anymore.

I'm OK with being booed.

A footballer must be prepared to be welcomed when all is well and to receive criticism when things are not working out. Of course, it is not easy nor pleasant to hear negative things about you.

I have played for the national team many times, so I am used to good things - and bad things - being said about me.

If you play football and fans are booing or saying negative stuff, it makes me play better.

You know that once you're successful, there's going to be good things and bad things that people say and, honestly, to me it doesn't really matter.

There's not one person at any club I've been at who would turn around and say I'm a bad egg, it's only been at Aston Villa. That speaks volumes.

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

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.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

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

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

With success always comes criticism. I've been criticized every year of my life.

I don't lose sleep about what people say about me. It's football.