Sydney J. Harris Quotes

When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

As players we're held accountable for poor performance, I think the same should be said for journalists.

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.

I'd like to give anyone else a go at being scrutinised. Daily. It's not easy.

When things aren't going as well as you might like them to be, it's always a question as to whether my personality... fits what an NFL quarterback should be. It's not anything I'm not used to.

Being manager means living in the middle of the media attention, through praise and critics. This is something I live with. It's intense and very demanding.

Being chief selector has been the most challenging role of my cricket career, as I was heavily criticised for my decisions, and I couldn't respond much.

At the end of the day, what people will give credit for is how Octobers turn out. That's how it works for Yankees managers.

As a player, when you get beaten, you can comfort yourself by saying you did reasonably well. As a manager, when you get beaten, you think it's all your fault, but 70,000 people and all those watching on television know it's your fault.

When a new manager comes in, you have to prove yourself all over again. That's what you have to do every day and keep your standards high.

We all know how management works. If you don't win things, as has happened before, people start to call for your head.

With United the spotlight is always on and there's always going to be that pressure, no matter what the game is.

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.

It is important to challenge your major players. You need to keep them on their toes but there are ways of doing that. Sometimes you have to be a shoulder to cry on. You can't be constantly at them.

If you have expectations as a club, then coping with criticism is part of your job.

You have to earn your job every day.

Fans don't care what's in your private life, what happened in your past, where you come from. If you don't perform, they judge.

At the start, when I started playing first-class cricket, I was a flamboyant player and I never used to take responsibility.

I understand that we're paid a lot of money and we're in the limelight. When things don't go well, there's deserved criticism.

Guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, they'll take bad criticism in a good way.

You can be as good as you want with your feet, but when you're making mistakes, the opinions will change immediately.

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?