Dak Prescott Quotes

It's something I have to remind myself about, that at every competition, I put a lot of pressure on myself, almost like it's the end of the world, and I have to keep reminding myself it's not.

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'

We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn.

Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in.

Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

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

After I joined the Indian cricket team, MS Dhoni advised me that I need to avoid reading the newspapers and should try to stay away from social media as much as possible.

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.

I have been trying to perform well and give my best, but unless I have a good story line in my hand or a supportive team, I am nothing.

It doesn't behoove you as an actor to sit around and worry.

I've always put pressure on myself to perform well.

I try not to feel pressure, because I feel like it kind of throws you off. I always try to focus on myself. But it does kind of creep into the back of my mind.

How can you change things when you are under pressure? You don't tell a player who keeps giving the ball away not to touch the ball; you keep training and working hard.

Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.

My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.

Of course we go to Montreal to work as hard as we can and do the best we can, the same way we go everything, but I think if we always think we need to score points, we start forgetting about the stuff we have to do to get there.

The only way I can meet expectations of myself and what I think I am capable of is to make sure my game is in order and I am doing things that allow me to perform at my best, to make sure my training is good, to make sure I am focused on watching the ball and not worried about the external expectations.

You have to be able to shut out everything else, all the distractions and criticism. There's a lot of work that went on off the pitch, a lot of conversations, to make that happen.

When I'm about to play in a big match, I take things easy.

I clear my mind; I don't think about the pressure before a fight. I focus on going in the cage and being successful while doing my job.