Marco Asensio Quotes

It pumps me up - the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It's a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

I want to focus on football and just go on the pitch to do my thing.

When I am on the pitch, I just want to play, I don't care if it is the Nou Camp or not; I just want to play.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.

We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

As players, we have to concentrate with what happens on the pitch, not off it.

I like a little pressure. That's how football goes.

In a way getting fired up for these matches is what makes the Premier League the hardest tournament for me. Knowing I can lose and still be in the tournament probably makes me relax too much sometimes.

On the pitch we tend to forget the things that happen off the field. I try to focus a lot on what I'm doing.

It gets to the point where, by the time you're underneath the arena lights and you're staring at your opponent, that's the best time. That's the best feeling in the world, because all the other stuff goes away.

Whenever you're playing on the pitch, you have to step up to the plate and perform.

There is always pressure in football.

You feel many things during a match. There are things that annoy you. During important games, I do not always touch the ball a lot.

Football always has pressure.

No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.