Franz Beckenbauer Quotes

If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

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

I am not obsessed, but it is natural that doing well for PSG is the only way I can push back into the squad.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

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.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

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

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

I don't care how good you are, teams can be put under pressure.

Pressure can make a diamond. Pressure makes me play better because I don't want to let my teammates or my fans down, and that makes me play extra hard.

In training, for example, when you feel your position on the team is in danger then you have to be fully focused.

I am not thinking about World Cup and all those things. You can't play freely if you start thinking like that.

The first one is your first World Cup, so you go into it with a lot of pressure, trying to take it all in, but you are just so focused.

You have to be prepared for situations on and off the field, and everything that happens within the world of football. It's difficult for players at big clubs to deal with these things.

There's always competition in the national team.

In international cricket you have to thrive on the big stage, you have to deal with the media and the pressure.

I have to keep performing well for club and country. That's what I always want to do. If I do that, then that extra media attention comes towards me.

It happens so quick. You lose a game; you lose another game; it's a World Cup; media scrutiny; public expectation, and then you almost go into sort of survival mode. We've all been there.

When I played for Arsenal, like once per month, you always had this feeling you had to perform.

The number 10 player is the star of the team, and you have more responsibility.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

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