Cate Campbell Quotes

Players are under such pressure in crucial moments, especially at the highest level with what is on the line.

When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build.

I have a good record in shoot-outs. In such moments, I'm always confident of making at least a couple of stops; I always feel the taker is under more strain. Worrying is the kicker's job, as he's expected to score, while I have nothing to lose.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.

I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

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.

Every possession matters, and everything goes down to the wire.

Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.

The hardest thing about kicking field goals sometimes is you don't know when you're going to play. You don't know what situation you're going to be in. I remember in the Atlanta Super Bowl, it's two weeks of the biggest buildup of your life, and I didn't step on the field until there was two seconds left in the second quarter.

The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult.

In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.

It's always something that's played on my mind, being an Olympian, so hopefully we get there and do the job at the World Cup.

I think because I'm so naturally happy and unaffected and open, people thought I didn't take the jumping seriously. You're up that high, believe me - you take it very seriously.

There's pressure on each and every game.

In the playoffs, all eyes are on you.

I've never felt as nervous as I did before a track meet - literally, stomach going crazy - 'cause it was just so difficult.

It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.

When you are in the goal, you have to concentrate totally on the game, but in a shoot-out when the striker is walking towards the penalty spot, you remember what you have been through and see it as a chance to make the difference.

It is always pressure out there when you are favourite for the match.

It is pretty daunting - the Cell has been responsible for some amazing matches, but it can also lead to some pretty real injuries, so that plays into your mind.