Fan Pressure Quotes

I put pressure on myself and feel pressure from my fans to not only win but to look great doing it.

I know I have a lot of fans, and it's a big mistake try to please everybody.

I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.

Sometimes people stop me on the street and they say 'when are you going to make the next 'Zanaka' and it's what I really didn't want to do.

You have to have confidence in where you're going. Don't live and die by the fans' tweets.

You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer.

There is a tendency to want to isolate a little bit, from people that might look at me from a fan position, because it's hard to be a real person around them, and I really want that when I'm not out on tour and in that sort of public eye.

People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.

I am constantly scared that I should not do or say anything that will hurt my fans.

You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don't, suddenly from the fans it's, 'You're not good enough to play for our football club.'

What's happened is that every time I go to a convention or go into a comic book shop is that people drag me off into a corner and beat me up and go, 'When are you going to do Batman again?'

If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.

Sometimes fans... they want more and more and more, and they think you win a national championship every year. It doesn't work that way.

Players are under enough pressure to perform from fans and the media without a manager complicating matters further in public.

We can't let the fans influence how we play.

The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.

No one can deny there is a lot of pressure when Pakistan and India play, especially with the expectations of the fans at home.

The fans get a bit frustrated with me because I'm not signing straight away. They can get on your back a little bit, but this is football, and you have to accept these things.