Nicolas Anelka Quotes

All my life, everything has been a contest.

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

It's hard being on the best team in the world.

Sometimes, it doesn't matter if you're the world champ or not.

You've always six teams who are trying to win the title, and the other five have failed. But by word of saying it, it's not failing; it's just the way it is. The last two years, we didn't win it, so it wasn't good enough, but if now we win it, the other teams will say the same.

When you are successful, there is the pressure of performing consistently; when you are not, there is the pressure of coming back and doing well.

It was nice to have success in the SheBelieves Cup, but that just brings more pressure.

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

It's the best fifth place I've ever had.

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

I look forward to competing.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

With competition everyone has to try harder.

In games, we know who has won... You get the reinforcement for having played well.

The score never interested me, only the game.

I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.