Paulo Dybala Quotes

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don't think that's fair.

When expectations are really high, you're doomed.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.

If, for people, Instagram is just entertainment, for me, it's an additional burden.

I carried around a lot of weight and anxiety - expectations of being a top draft pick and fulfilling those. It was really burdensome and not fun. Stressful. I had to go through some things before I finally turned that around and got back to playing for the right reasons.

With a label, pressure is added. Being independent, you don't feel a lot of pressure.

Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.

It's a great thing to have: that pressure everywhere you go, that responsibility. I think it's good to have it.

I feel like people expect a lot from me.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

The whole damned country was depending on me.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.