Eniola Aluko Quotes

When you don't make the plays that you know you're capable of making, it's frustrating.

It bothers me when I don't score.

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

I don't know why, but playing for England, I always feel I am going to score.

I wanted to prove myself on the pitch, but I didn't have many chances, so it put a lot more pressure on every single game that I played. I found myself in situations where I was so keen to show my qualities, but many times it worked against me and I was punished for being too eager.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

Being the headliner is only more pressure if you're not very good.

You want to make every shot, but it's not going to happen like that.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

The pressure of success is suffocating.

Everybody expects you to play well, and when you don't have the results, that's tough.

It's hard if you don't quite feel on your game to go out and put scores on the board.

Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.

If you go to ice and you think, 'I must score' or 'I must get some points,' you won't score or get any points. You must go and play and don't think about it.

You can put too much pressure on yourself. You can start forcing balls, maybe trying too hard. You make things too complicated.

I am disappointed at not being able to live up to the expectations of my supporters, but every cricketer goes through such a time.

Auditioning sucks!

In the past, I put too much pressure on myself. I went out there and I tried so hard to get the ball in the hole, I tried so hard to hit the perfect shots.

There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

I feel like I've definitely let some good finishes go because of pushing too hard at the wrong time.