Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

Win it, or it's start all over around here.

Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.

I always talk about, like, with end-of-game situations, making and missing big shots, I know I can shoulder that. I can live with having the success of the playoffs and having a huge failure. I know I can deal with it.

When I step up to that penalty spot, I know the consequences. They're the same whether I miss the first, second, third - or the 10th - it will be the same.

When they take you with the eighth pick, I don't want to say pressure, but you've got a lot of people counting on you.

A coach's life is that, when you win, it is easy, and when you lose, you're no good; it's all your fault.

Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

Absolute authority will be delegated. Full responsibility will be assumed. Those who succeed will receive advancement and satisfaction of desire. Those who fail will die.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

I have so much to live up to as well as live down.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

People think that footballers just have a kick around with their mates. If they win, fine; if they don't, that's then fine, too. No pasa nada. No. You have an obligation and responsibility.

It's a responsibility when you have won as much as I have done, as much as the teams I have played for have done: then the fans are waiting for more.

As a goalkeeper, you are only remembered for your last game.