Carly Patterson Quotes

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

It is a player's league until you lose.

If we lose games, and I don't score a lot, they gonna say I'm not scoring enough.

I've never felt like I've had a good game.

I don't want to be one of those players who has a good career but couldn't get out of the first round.

The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give?

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.

Strikers never lose games... we have to be honest and say that.

Been dealing with pressure since I've been playing sports, so that's why I play the position. It's a pressure-packed position and I love it.

I can just remember what I have seen, and then I often think about how I do well throughout the match, and then, if I miss one chance, everyone talks about the miss. Only that.

People seem to think when you lose a match it's because you are not working hard.

I've always hated to lose and I continue to hate it. But I've been obliged to accept it because I also have had some crushing defeats.

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