Seven years into life at Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp is starting to see perhaps the most prescient of all his memorable soundbites flipped on its head.
As the longest-serving manager of the Premier League surveys the wreckage of the worst start to a campaign in over a decade, Klopp may just feel the believers have turned to doubters.
Not, it must be stressed, in his ability as an elite coach or whether or not he is still the right man to halt this particular downturn, but there are some who are starting to feel, with increasing justification, that a half-decade of the hard running that has taken this team to their outer limits has finally caught up with them.
