Frank Lampard Quotes

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

People want to be Lakers. There's just so much pressure, and some guys handle it and some guys can't.

I believe all teams choke in certain situations.

Sometimes when the strikers don't score, the pressure starts on them. They love to score goals.

It will not matter, the pressure I always had it, I was mediated early, I learned to handle it, I got used to it and it's part of my environment.

The expectation in Munich is always high, this expectation I have towards myself personally and to my players. I was aware of that when I signed with Bayern.

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.

I think Chris Paul is a great player. He is very unselfish and plays very hard, so he would be a guy if he plays. I think his hand is still questionable, though. I hear they are talking about resting him that weekend. I'm excited to play with all the guys. Marvin Williams is starting to play well, and Salim Stoudamire, I think he should be there.

The coaches of some players who are my own age keep saying publically about me: "This guy is going to be one of the greats." I am clever enough to know that they do not truthfully think so. They are trying to shake my confidence. Of course, this is a matter of tactics.

Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

We're more than ready to deliver. When the pressure is on, I think that's when the Ring of Honor roster does the best. Not only the main event, the entire roster feels the pressure and are ready to deliver.

It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.

I think pressure's healthy, and very few can handle it.

No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland. People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

There are loads of players I could name who are 16-16 looked like world beaters but then at 21-22 they are subs in non-league. There comes a time in your career when the pennies got to drop, where you've got to understand decisionmaking at the right, poignant moments in the game. When to pass, when to dribble, when to shoot. Game-changing moments, can you be the guy that sits there and takes the responsibility. And the great players do.