Judd Trump Quotes

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

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

It's hard to play with any kind of confidence when you feel like if you miss one shot, if you make one mistake, you're getting pulled.

The first time I played Test cricket, I did OK because I had no real expectations, I was just going to enjoy it. Then I lost that.

Any fight I feel pressure, just the same as the last one, the next one will be just as important.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d'Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don't know what will happen. This pressure is inside you - you always have it.

When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.

I think people are always nervous for your first game.

I've always had a lot of pressure on myself, but I'm not going to lie, I feel a lot of pressure to give the fans everything they expect plus more.

When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.

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.

You feel pressure when other people's expectations are higher than your own.

I have always boxed better with a bit of nerves.

I feel like it's harder because everyone knows I'm the three-time world champion - it's almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.

I think pressure exists in a situation only when you are unsure of your talent and people are expecting a lot from you due to your lineage.

I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.