Gerard Pique Quotes

I've addressed this before, and I'll say it again: The league has to take a long, hard look at full-time officials. The officiating has been inconsistent all season long.

There's no reason for me to go into a big dissertation about why I'm not getting the calls. The refs have to do their jobs as well. I even mentioned it in training camp to the refs when we had our little meeting.

I don't like to criticise referees because I believe it is a very complicated job, and what they do is very beneficial for football.

Football officiating is so subjective - much more subjective than any other sport. But the more I watch - and I watch too many matches - the more impressed I am with referees.

Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

I always think we have to be cautious with our attitude to refereeing the professionals and the people in the football family.

I'm glad to see goal-line technology working; we should have had it for years. I do believe we will soon see managers being allowed one, or two, challenges.

Refereeing is always an issue where you want to have the best officials, and I think the referees do their very best in the games, but we always want to improve standards across the league.

In Italy, everyone is talking about the referee for three days before the game - 'We don't like him. He is no good.'

We should not discuss refereeing performances but support decisions to help their work.

I find the quality of the officials in the Premier League so much better than the Championship.

Handling pressure is the key to doing well in Indo-Pak matches.

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

The first year was weird. I knew I was just there to talk to pitchers and not step on any toes. I could feel my adrenaline start to flow in about the sixth inning. I had to tell myself, "What the hell are you getting excited about? You're not going anywere, big boy. Just go sign some autographs." I was still programmed.

Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport.

You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.

The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.

A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.

When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.