Carlo Ancelotti Quotes

In the Premier League you know you'll play a certain amount of matches so you can always think 'I'll put it right next week' if you lose.

There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.

I think if you play for Chelsea you have to deal with the pressure, everybody knows the expectations.

I went away with Scotland because I was trying to get some game-time somewhere but it just wasn't working out with Scotland, the results weren't happening.

Everyone in the Premier League feels pressure to get results. It is part of being a footballer.

Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game… Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.

It's hard in England. If I didn't score for three games, there was the chance someone would take my place or I would be loaned out.

You have a lot of pressure in football.

When you join the NFL, you start from scratch. As long as I've been playing - which has been since I was eight years old - the game becomes harder at every level. Little league, high school, college - they're different stages you have to go through, and professional sport is completely different again.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

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'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I've played in a lot of big matches and you learn from them.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.

International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.

When you have a year of experience and also the experience of playing in the playoffs, it just makes a world of difference.

It is not my decision who plays in La Liga, the Champions League, or the Copa. In any case, I just do the best possible in each training session and in each game to be able to get a chance in La Liga.

Football is what we do. It's our job, it's a business.

I know how to win big matches.

At City I went back there on the basis of playing for manager Mark Hughes.

There are no guarantees getting into an England squad: there's so many unbelievable players.

You expect to have to soak up some pressure when you are playing Manchester City away from home.

I suppose I should have realised that the very fact I was still playing for United at 38 years old was a sign that there was not enough pressure on us senior players from those coming into the side.

I like a little pressure. That's how football goes.