Toni Kroos Quotes

I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.

The pressure to win is always there, especially with the Brazilian team.

I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.

If you have a success in your life, why can't we hold on to that? Why can't that be good enough for a lifetime; why do we always have to be ramping up?

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

A derby is a derby. When you play a derby, it is for winning, not just to play.

When you are in the second position and you want to be champions, you are always under pressure.

It's not easy to play for Atletico. Talent is not enough, the bar is very high.

For me, you can only be content when you're champions. You can only be content with winning away.

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

Frankly speaking, the pleasure and satisfaction you get after performing against India you don't get against any team, and if you ask the Indian players, they would have similar sentiments.

You can only be content with winning.

You are under some sort of pressure to win any match. It is natural.