Tony McCoy Quotes

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.

At the beginning of the first season, you don't have that pressure to perform at 100 per cent, because it's always hard when you first start. But now, in the second season, people are expecting big things from you, so you can't really disappoint them.

You are under some sort of pressure to win any match. It is natural.

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

I put a lot of pressure on myself to perform, go out and win races.

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.

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.

I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

There is always a pressure if you play every game and especially when you are representing your country.

During those years with the Iron Maidens, I felt I had to be great and really prove myself at every single show.

You want to go out every week and win - that's our job - and when you don't do that for a few games on the trot it starts to eat away at you, no matter who you are.

There is always scrutiny and pressure from the media. I am always told that I have to win.

Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.

The crowd in big venues can really make or crush players.

I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

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

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

There is pressure, and I would never complain about that, but as players we put pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one thing I won't miss when I finally stop playing.

It's always pressure in sport. It was a lot of pressure since Day 1 in Orlando, and it's going to be always pressure, but I think those pressures make us better.

It's no secret that the expectations are very high here at Bayern. We are under pressure all the time. But we've often proved we can deal with it.

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.