Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.
The worst enemy of coaches is expectations.
Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably, to a first-round knockout or a 30-point blowout or a fourth-inning rainout.
People think I played 10 years. I only played 68 games.
The first time we played in Berlin, there was this guy who went into the show expecting Steve Perry. He was so frustrated, he threw this paper cup filled with beer on me.
Being the number one seed, you're thinking you don't want to lose in the second round.
I heard heart wrenching stories about fans who had tickets for the 1980 show in Montreal, the first concert that didn't happen, when my dad died. They'd be in tears. It was hard to deal with sometimes.
After you win, people expect you to always play so good. When that doesn't happen, it's hard to deal with.
The South Africa public are very passionate and they just care a lot for their team. So if something goes wrong, because they are so emotionally invested in it, they feel as though we are letting them down.
I was supposed to do Mammootty's 'White,' but it didn't work out.
A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'
I have been in tournaments before where people would say, 'England should win this game,' and we didn't.
