Lukasz Fabianski Quotes

You play for a club like Real Madrid, the people outside start talking.

The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.

When you leave Real Madrid - a famous club worldwide - it's normal to get criticism.

Before leaving, I was seen as a good player, perhaps as a very good player, but as one of the many players that Bayern had. But if you play as a Real footballer, you get even more attention. Maybe that part from the fans I do not like so much.

I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.

I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true.

I struggled with the limelight.

When I go home, it is quite difficult. Being at Manchester United means it is a huge thing, and when I walk down the street, most people recognize me.

The more successful you become, the more known you become, everything you say is minutely scrutinised a lot.

When you play for Manchester United, the pressure's on every week.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

I often tell my daughter that it is very easy to handle failure because when you are a failure, nobody is bothered about you. Nobody will look at you even if you cry. But when you are successful, then it becomes difficult or even impossible to handle it.

Centre-back takes more out of you mentally than physically.

Going to Manchester United, you're expected to be the final product.

When you play for Manchester United, any year you don't win the title, you feel like you haven't done your job.

When I started out playing live, it was different. I felt good about it. Nobody knew who I was. I just opened for so-and-so. Now, I'm playing to people who are coming out to see the band. There's too much attention on the band and me.

With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.

I took over from Sir Alex, and it was always going to take time, whoever was in charge.

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

People are more willing to dislike your music and want to find faults in you when you are given opportunities like in my case. But I think in my case, people love my work and that's why I have to work doubly hard.

I always felt I had to prove my intelligence.

The pressure of the Premier League is huge but so is moving your family across the world to a club where they had sacked the manager every year for the last five.

Being in a boy band, everyone has an opinion of all of us and what we do. There was a time I fought with that.

I think I can handle the pressure and am pretty confident I can adapt to the style of the Premier League.