Quotes About Pressure

Pressure is the way a predator fights.

When they have the lead, you don't want to fall into too predictable counts because they're playing with house money at that point. You want to try to be creative and keep them off-balance as much as you can.

When you're in one of the biggest media markets and you have a good team and you're predicted to do well, if you struggle at any point, they're going to come after you. Even when you're playing well, you're not winning by enough.

You don't have to be in our industry to have a panic attack about your career when you're pregnant. Even if you're a lawyer, you can think, 'I'm scared to take time off because I don't want to get passed by.'

A lot of times, I've always looked at pitching in the All-Star Game as a prelude to how you pitch in the postseason, sometimes how you might have to pitch on two days' rest out of the pen, only throw one inning and then you have to go face the best hitters. That's what you do in the All-Star Game.

Being in midfield, in general, you don't have a lot of time to think, and in the Premier League, that's even less of the case. You just don't have time to think.

I've been a manager in the Premier League for many years and you do become conservative when you're in that bottom section. There's so much stress, because it is so important and there's so much scrutiny.

We all know the Premier League is so tough and many, many things can happen - right until the last game of the season.

The Premier League is tough because, as soon as you lose a couple of games, you're out of the race for the league.

In the Premier League, the most important thing is not to give the team at the top of the table reasons to keep winning game after game.

When you play football in the Premier League, everybody is watching.

In the Premier League, I think if you win your first five games, you're in the fight, because here in every game, you can lose or drop points.

In the Premier League, you always have to be at your best. You get forced to get the best out of yourself.

There are so many things that a goalkeeper coming to the Premier League has not experienced in a different league.

I want to play in the Premier League, the Champions League, and I want to continue playing for England. If I'm going to do that, I have to play for my club and put in good performances for my club because there are other English midfielders who are doing that in the Premier League.

What we experience in the Premier League is so intense.

I love the Premier League, the quality of the players, the quality of the coaches. There are great challenges. But there are arms and legs flying off managers down there.

With the Premier League, you can afford to lose a couple here and there, but it's a tough competition, a cup competition.

You don't manage more than 900 games, mostly in the top half of the Premier League, if you haven't got something that enables you to cope with pressure.

In the Premier League, you don't have one second to breathe - you have to be on it from the first minute. If you lose focus - just for a few seconds - the game will pass you by. It's 100 miles an hour.

After you win a Premier League, the second year is more difficult.

The mental aspect of being a goalkeeper is very important so you have to go into the game with full concentration and confidence. That is a big part of your game and the Premier League is the most demanding league for any goalkeeper.

Being involved with the first team, be it in the Premier League or the Europa League, you just have to take it as it comes. You keep all the nerves inside and just play your normal game.

If you are fighting at the top in the Premier League then you cannot do that with a dodgy goalkeeper. It is not possible.