Alastair Cook Quotes

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

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

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

That competitive nature comes out when I feel like I'm playing bad and when things aren't going right.

After you win, people expect you to always play so good. When that doesn't happen, it's hard to deal with.

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.

If you start badly, and the crowd get on your case, there is no way back. But if you start well and your confidence is high all that booing becomes music to your ears.

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

When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

Of course I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can't accept that. Especially when things don't go right for United. It all means so much to me to be succesful here. It drives me crazy at times.

I don't like failing at anything.

I expected results.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

My parents think I'm better under pressure.

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.

You grow up always thinking you'd be in pressure situations all the time, and that's why I put pressure on myself in practice, so when those situations come in the game I feel I can be successful.

Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.

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.

Everyone's just looking at you. They're expecting you to win every game, and it's just not possible.

I've always had this crazy thought that I have to win something; otherwise, my career's a complete failure. It's ridiculous. Will a trophy change me as a person? No. Will it make me a better player? No. So what the hell am I worried about?

Over the course of six amateur fights and two professional fights I learned a lot about how to get things done, how to pick myself up after disappointment, how to work through frustration and how to process moments of success.

I feel whenever my shows are too hyped, they usually don't work.