Lukasz Fabianski Quotes

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

You are always having to prove something in football whether you are flying or not.

Anytime you join a show that's been successful, there's a certain responsibility. And a lot of anxiety that, you know, you're bringing the character to life, respecting the show and doing your part. So that you are not the weak link in the chain.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.

When things are going well, everyone's coming into training, having a lot of banter and joking about and enjoying things, and when you are not, it's not that feeling, because the expectation level is to win.

I think pressure exists in a situation only when you are unsure of your talent and people are expecting a lot from you due to your lineage.

Now I know that when you do come to a new club, you have to fight for your spot if you want to be in the line-up week in, week out.

It's hard in England. If I didn't score for three games, there was the chance someone would take my place or I would be loaned out.

The greater the pressure and expectation, the more I relish the opportunity.

There's always going to be pressure on your place. It's 11 cricketers. There's always going to be other cricketers outside the team doing well.

There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.

Joining McLaren didn't add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.

I think it's bad in a way for junior players and college players to feel they must be number one.

The pressure is always there with Bayern, but we can cope with it.

At a club like Manchester United, we have to win something.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

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 my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.

If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.