Brian Boitano Quotes

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.

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.

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 there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.

If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that's professional sport.

You'll go down a dark road if you just dwell on every time you screw up. We play a very fickle position. If I make nine kicks out of 10, people are going to talk about the one I missed.

I was getting, at like 18, 'Why haven't you won a Grand Slam yet?'

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

In a sportsperson's life, pressure is always there; you have to learn to deal with it.

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

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

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

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

I am tired of being roasted. I had a great deal of hard luck while manager of the team and somehow or other couldn't get the best out of the material I had at hand.

If we lose games, and I don't score a lot, they gonna say I'm not scoring enough.

Pressure makes me produce. Kills most guys. Mortifies 'em.

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.

Me, personally, I thrive under pressure.

If you are out there golfing, and you hit a bad shot, anyone who knows golf will tell you that you just have to forget about it. If you don't, you'll hit another bad one and another and then another. It plays with your head. It's the same way in a fight.

I like pressure, the boos didn't mean nothing to me.

When you do things wrong, even a couple of mistakes, the press has the right to criticise. Much more so when you're a goalkeeper - who remain in the spotlight forever.

I feel that I can make certain shots, tough shots, and that I can play better when things aren't going well.

When you play injured, you're still judged like you're 100 percent. You know you can't do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.