Alex Ferguson Quotes

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

I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

If you ask any footballer, if you haven't won a game all season you're not going to be confident.

I have played in big clubs for many, many years. When you win, it is good, but when you lose, nobody is going to be happy, and the pressure is going to be there.

Everyone's just looking at you. They're expecting you to win every game, and it's just not possible.

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.

I had no direct experience of a relegation scrap, but with Wales, I never had the luxury of being allowed to lose games. I was under pressure to win even the friendlies.

At Real Madrid there is always pressure to win.

At a club like Manchester United, we have to win something.

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

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

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.

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.

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

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.

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.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

'Don't worry about it, and you'll be great,' said nobody, ever.

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

Strikers can't score every week, much as they would like to.

There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.

Spain always go into a tournament with the idea of performing the best we can.

Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.

I think if you play for Chelsea you have to deal with the pressure, everybody knows the expectations.

A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that's down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.