Donovan McNabb Quotes

Captains are always criticised.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

Any time a team doesn't score points, it's on me.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

I know how prone we are to censure and how ready to blame others for the non-fulfillment of our expectations. This is unbecoming in a generous people, and I grieve to see its expression. The general remedy for the want of success in a military commander is his removal. I have been prompted by these reflections more than once since my return from Pennsylvania to propose to Your Excellency the propriety of selecting another commander for this army.

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.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

Everything falls on the quarterback.

When you win, that's what you're expected to do and when you lose, people get on your back.

In Austria, everything is my fault when we lose. Whatever I do it's not enough.

A coach's life is that, when you win, it is easy, and when you lose, you're no good; it's all your fault.

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

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

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

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 no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

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.

I am a marquee player and certainly that means a lot of responsibility.

I knew there was going to be pressure on me with the captaincy. I knew people would be writing about my performances more than anyone else's, but that's not a problem because I have my dad telling me about my performance every single game, and he is my biggest critic.

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.