Quotes About Performance

The World Cup, as an event, carries a lot of pressure, irrespective of the number of caps you have earned, and the pressure doubles when you play at home.

In a World Cup final the adrenalin is going. Emotion sometimes get the better of me but that is adrenalin and wanting us to do well.

The World Cup is the toughest challenge there is. You have seven matches where you have to bring your best and cannot let up at any turn.

Even before the World Cup in 2010 I had said that there were no world champions who aim to stifle the opposition's play and somehow hope to win. These teams do not go far.

In 2014, we won the World Cup without a big superstar. We won with a team performance where everyone brought something to the team and gave everything for the team.

The World Cup is always difficult, you need to come physically prepared.

To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.

It is important for me, no matter whether I lead or not, that I continue my form even in the World Cup. It is important that you get runs because people look up to you, and the team also expects you to get runs being a senior member of the side.

The player picked as No 23 in the squad will not win the World Cup for you.

When you go to a World Cup, the whole nation should be behind the team - and then the team have to play their part, too.

Premier League is one thing. World Cup is totally different.

Before a marquee tournament like World Cup, a good IPL acts as a confidence booster.

Many clubs use sports psychologists today. But you have to work with a mental coach for months. You can't just start when you are in the World Cup.

If you are playing in any team or even if you represent your country, some pressure is there. This is a World Cup so all the eyes are on you.

For quality and excitement the Champions League is better than the World Cup.

Two days before the World Cup, it's a good time to be back to your best.

It's the inability to handle the pressure that makes a big difference between the Italian players and the England players when it comes to the World Cup stage.

If you see cricket, the IPL is going on and then there is the World Cup. If cricketers can play two tournaments back-to-back, then why can't players from other sports?

Many substitutes have won the Euros, World Cup or Champions League without contributing anything.

If we don't qualify, if we didn't win the Asian Cup, if we went into the last World Cup and you know, we got embarrassed in any way, I would be the man in front of that.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.