Samir Nasri Quotes

The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.

I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

I knew my first game at Everton wasn't going to be a stroll around the pitch.

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.

Sport can change so quickly where confidence is such a big factor.

There is always pressure on managers at whatever stage of a season because we want to be winning games and we want to be winning football matches.

Every player at a high level faces pressure and must respond, and I am ready for that, too.

It takes a lot of nerves to be a sports entertainer and to be in front of those big crowds.

I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.

I always try not to read anything of people talking about me, but of course you can still feel pressure at the stadium, during the games, if you don't play well.

There is always a pressure if you play every game and especially when you are representing your country.

It is hard to enjoy life in a national team.

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

Sometimes in a match, when things get tight, you want to feel like you can swing out on the ball and still have control.

I always knew I could win tournaments in the U.K. but there was a question mark over whether I could deal with playing in China.

Very often, you can go into one game and do really well, and then you have to find that level of performance so quickly again.

Playing in a big tournament is one of the biggest things for a professional footballer.

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

Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.

The first few years I was competing, I'd ride so well in practice, then choke and fall in competition. Now I take a deep breath and say, 'Look at me. I'm outside. I'm doing what I love.' Still, nothing's matched the pressure I felt standing at the top of the halfpipe for the first time at the Olympics.

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

The preseason games are always weird because you know you're not going to play a ton, but you have to get ready like it's a regular-season game. There can be pressure to go out there and do well.