A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
Don’t worry, the fans don’t start booing until July.
I don’t need to be in New York. If you’ve had a bad game, they’re booing you and all that mess.
If you start badly, and the crowd get on your case, there is no way back. But if you start well and your confidence is high all that booing becomes music to your ears.
First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn’t think it would be such a big deal that I didn’t sign with Pittsburgh.
If it came to a World Championship final playing Michael van Gerwen in a last-leg decider and people were booing, that would hurt.
But every time the crowd boo me I try to turn that negative into a positive and seem to have done that better. Sometimes it drives me to play better and concentrate more when theyre booing. Sometimes when theyre not on my back, I cant get in the zone.
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