David Luiz Quotes

Pitching, if you have a bad start, a lot of the blame is put on you and then you have to sit around and think about it all week. And the same thing with kicking. You either make it or miss and no one is going to make excuses for you. The mentalities of the two are very comparable.

A coach's life is that, when you win, it is easy, and when you lose, you're no good; it's all your fault.

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

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.

I'm aware that if the ball is thrown in my direction, I'm expected to catch it because the media is going to be on my back.

Captains are always criticised.

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.

You will always be judged as a Liverpool player but, as a captain, you will be judged on what you win, basically. If you're doing well, and the team is winning everything, you become a very good captain.

Pressure, responsibility - I'm used to playing in big clubs.

Any time a team doesn't score points, it's on me.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

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

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

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

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

I have so much to live up to as well as live down.

When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.

When you play with a big club, you need to get results every single day, even more when a homegrown player goes into the first team. It's not easy.

I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

It is important for me, no matter whether I lead or not, that I continue my form even in the World Cup. It is important that you get runs because people look up to you, and the team also expects you to get runs being a senior member of the side.

Going to the Combine, I had a lot of eyes on me, high praise on me, so I had to perform well at the Combine, or everything would have just went downhill.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

There are days when there's no will to do anything. It's not easy for someone in my profession, because you are always meant to be in the limelight. I can't just not turn up, as I will come across as unprofessional, and people won't work with me anymore.

You're the quarterback, if you lose games... it's the head coach and the quarterback. If you're not winning, it's on you.