Peyton Manning Quotes

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'

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

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

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

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

Captains are always criticised.

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

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

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

If you play bad, people are going to let you know.

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

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.

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

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

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

It’s very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this up, but we screwed this up.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

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 don't perform, and you're part of the team, whether you're playing your first Test or 50th Test match, criticism goes hand in hand, so that's something you can't really get away from. If you don't perform, you will be criticised.

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.

If you strike out or look bad on the field, we'd get on each other. If you can't take the heat, you gotta get out of the kitchen.

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.

The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either.

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.