Phil Jones Quotes

We will always have our critics because we are Manchester United. It has been like that since I have been here.

When you win you're going to get fans chanting your name and when you don't do great they're going to give you stick.

At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!

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

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.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

There's backlash about everything I do.

I knew the pressure would be huge. I knew Manchester United was a massive club and a big challenge for me. Hopefully I'm proving to people that I can rise to the challenge.

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.

Any crowd that gets on your back makes it difficult, but you are going to get that if things aren't going well. The fans have got their right to give their opinion.

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

Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you're not winning you have to be prepared for that. It's part of your job.

Being at United, you always get quite disappointed if you don't get all three points, as you believe you can go into every single game and win it.

At Real Madrid there is always pressure to win.

When you're on top, you're going to get flack for anything.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

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

As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

People are gonna comment no matter what. If I dated the most clean-cut, perfect guy, they're gonna comment. That's just the way it is.