Jalen Brunson Quotes

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

You want to go out every week and win - that's our job - and when you don't do that for a few games on the trot it starts to eat away at you, no matter who you are.

Being the No. 1 pick isn't that important to me.

Being the number one seed, you're thinking you don't want to lose in the second round.

When you don't play those big matches for a few years, it's tough to play back-to-back after that.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

I feel as much pressure as anyone does about their work, really. You just want to be productive; only difference is that the work is seen and judged by a few more people.

I've always had a lot of pressure on myself, but I'm not going to lie, I feel a lot of pressure to give the fans everything they expect plus more.

It's hard because, throughout your whole career, you're known as the top player, the best on your team, you're playing the most minutes, and then you might not get in the game. You don't know when you're going to get in the game.

If you've got the best record, you're going to be the favourite. So you've got to play as the favourite with a bullseye on your back.

I would want to wear No. 20, just because a lot of history behind that number through high school and college.

I hate to go into games thinking about goals.

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.

When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.

It is hard sometimes, we live in a world where results and all these things matter.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

When I started and first got to the MMA gym the guys would start and say, 'You're like the All-American kid.' It was because, I don't know, I go to church every Sunday, I got married young and I've always been an All-American in college having gone All-American all four years.

It's part of the gift and the curse of coming behind my brother. I'm not afforded the luxury of just taking a set casual, taking the night off. Because if I bomb, it's, 'Oh, he's not funny - he's just doing it because of his brother.'

I had a little bit of expectations just to be not terrible, because you can't be named so similar to a sport and not be at least adequate at that sport. I don't think there's been expectations to be really good, because my parents never put that kind of pressure on me, but I had to be at least decent.

I think being world number one and world champion, pressure comes with that.

Everyone in the Premier League feels pressure to get results. It is part of being a footballer.

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.

When shots are going for six and you're playing well, everyone is trying to big you up. Mis=hit one, get out, all the negative people come out.

I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.

Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.