Donte DiVincenzo Quotes

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

Every time I come out, there's more and more people paying attention, so I gotta show out every time.

Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

Win it, or it's start all over around here.

I'd much rather have that pressure than be at the end of the field and no one expecting you to win. That's the kind of pressure that you've got to enjoy and love.

It's harder when you're supposed to win. When you're talking about the best players and the best teams in the world, when you talk about the Heat, you can ask them - it's not easy.

I'm only as good as my next appearance and my next match.

A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that's down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.

From a very young age people have been touting me as a world champion. So it can be tough, playing in the spotlight and people expecting big things from you all the time.

There's always pressure at a big club.

When they take you with the eighth pick, I don't want to say pressure, but you've got a lot of people counting on you.

At a club like Manchester United, we have to win something.

I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

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.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.