Quotes About Pressure

On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.

People ask me, 'What were you thinking during that game-winning penalty kick in the 2011 World Cup?' I was actually thinking absolutely nothing. I just walked up there and was so inspired by my teammates who rocked all their PKs; they just killed it. I figured I might as well do the same, or they might have my neck.

Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.

Any game in the World Cup is a tough game. The atmosphere brings a lot out of both teams.

If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

Which player isn't motivated about playing in the World Cup?

Every league game is like the World Cup. The passion... intense, the desire for points.

There is always pressure in all matches in the World Cup. This is when you must go beyond your capacity as a competitor.

Starting in a World Cup is always complicated, hard, and important. When you start well... The rest of the competitors are watching. I think it's the most important match in a World Cup, along with the final.

For Brazil, the World Cup really starts in the knockout rounds.

At the World Cup, it's the very top level. It's going to be tougher.

World Cup is a big platform.

The pressures of playing in the World Cup are different, but it was because we coped with them in 1992 under Imran Khan's guidance and influence that we won the Cup.

After the World Cup, it was so intense, and a lot of pressure was put on me - unfairly, I thought, at times - and it is always a worry, but you get older, you get a better support team, and I haven't hidden the fact about my past, and I never will because I'm not ashamed of it.

I wanted to score the winning goal in the 90th minute of the World Cup final.

What was scaring me was if we lost, I didn't know how I'd play cricket again. This was such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a World Cup final at Lord's.

Once you reach the knockout stage of a World Cup, the team that holds its nerves wins.

I am not thinking about World Cup and all those things. You can't play freely if you start thinking like that.

I haven't seen many pretty games in a World Cup.

Being able to put the ball in the back of the net is so important at the highest level and could be the difference between reaching the semi-finals and actually winning the World Cup.

It happens so quick. You lose a game; you lose another game; it's a World Cup; media scrutiny; public expectation, and then you almost go into sort of survival mode. We've all been there.

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.

In 1999, we went into the World Cup with a string of victories behind us but we could not handle the pressure and ended up letting ourselves down.