Player Criticism Quotes

Nobody has the right to negatively judge a player like Balotelli, as people can make mistakes.

I'm sorry to see Balotelli waste his talent the way he does, but I think he can keep people entertained by scoring goals.

This is what I know for a fact. I know that every guy playing in the league, they have someone out there that loves them swearing up and down that they shouldn't be out there.

The only thing is against Messi you can stop him 10 times, but if he passes you once and scores, people say, 'Evra played a poor game.'

You can be the best left back in the world, but if you play badly in the final, people will say you're the worst.

Normally I keep criticism of my players inside but sometimes people need to know what the manager is thinking.

I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.

The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he's a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.

Ben Roethlisberger is Tim Tebow minus Jesus.

Hey, dont hate the player, hate the team.

When I first came to England to play I saw coaches having a go at players when they made mistakes and they would literally be talking them through the game.

I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it.

I knew my knee was getting worse at Villa. The first season was dreadful and we went down. But speak to the Villa fans - take away the last three years - they were saying at the start that I should be playing for England.

Personally, I would never criticise a player in public.

When Brazil lose, someone has to be guilty, and it's always Rivaldo. It's different with Romario. He plays in Brazil, and they love him more. I'm treated like a foreign player.

I'm not stupid: if I have not been a starter with Ancelotti, Benitez and Zidane, it's my fault.

Nobody's perfect from a player to the media to fans.

The players who said I am the dirtiest player in the league, it's ultimately their opinion, but I would love to hear from many of them on their true opinion on that.

Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.

My mom gets mad because she'll read on Twitter or some message board that Spencer Paysinger is no good, and the Giants need to get rid of him. I tell her to stop reading that stuff because, at the end of the day, the media has no say on what happens in the locker room.

If you want to say I was a disaster of a player, then say it. But give me another disaster of a player who played almost 500 games across 14 years.

I really wasn't a good defensive player at all.

Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.

I don't understand the lack of respect for amazing players when people say they are not good enough for me.

I'm not a perfect player.