Stephan El Shaarawy Quotes

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

I think when the competitions come, I am always ready to go. I don't think I ever have not been.

I'm confident about going out there and playing - playing with emotion, screaming and yelling.

I wouldn't be in football if I was nervous. You have to look forward to games.

In our family, if you weren't competitive, you didn't eat. You had to fight for what you wanted.

If I were Goldberg or Brock Lesnar, I wouldn't want to have to go on after me and Randy. From their standpoint, I wouldn't want to be them and have to go on after us.

Anytime I play another rookie, there's that extra edge.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

It's difficult for anyone to regard a place in the England starting line-up as their own. There's always someone looking to get ahead of you, and that's how it should be.

I don't feel pressure going into games.

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

We compete so hard and that changes the whole ballgame.

There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

The talent God gave me is beautiful and wonderful, but it is difficult because you are always facing other people keen to judge you. There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.