Mickey Arthur Quotes

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

In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media.

A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

Ups and downs will be happening; coming to the final and losing by a point or so should not matter.

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

I think we all have had better days in competition.

There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

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 love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

It's tough to win major championships. So many things and emotions go through your mind.

It's great when you can challenge yourself against the top players in tense situations. I've always enjoyed it.

Every time you concede a goal, you don't have to put a hammer to your head.

I've enjoyed the challenges of playing in the biggest games.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

I have the game for the pressure matches and now I just have to be consistent.

It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

God, it's such an unforgiving sport.

Before normal games I was always relaxed. But at the World Cup for Italy my heartbeat was always going a lot quicker.

That competitive nature comes out when I feel like I'm playing bad and when things aren't going right.

I competed at 'WrestleMania 33,' and I'm telling you, leading up to what should have been the biggest moment of my life, I couldn't find an ounce of joy.

If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that's professional sport.

For me, if I attack two or three times but didn't get the point, then I would get nervous.

Players are under such pressure in crucial moments, especially at the highest level with what is on the line.

I am nervous all the way through the national anthem and the first play. Once I get up and down the court a few times, it fades.

The World Cup, as an event, carries a lot of pressure, irrespective of the number of caps you have earned, and the pressure doubles when you play at home.