Cory Lidle Quotes

I hate to go into games thinking about goals.

There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I've lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I'm going to pitch.

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

We always think that the next match is the most important one.

On the pitch, I need to stay focused, alert, and be ready to face my heart-racing moment with confidence.

When you start the match, you forget that you are No. 1, you have all the titles. You just have the battle ahead in front of you.

I don't worry about individual matchups.

I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing.

When I go on a pitch, I just try to enjoy it as much as I can. The more you enjoy it, the better you play.

A lot of what you get done in the NFL is by perception. They perceive you as really talented, and they worry about you. You've got to come out of the locker room with something.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to do well and score more, and it will be a matter of time. Once you get back into that rhythm, you will start getting balls that drop to you in positions where it wasn't before. I do have that feeling that it is going to come soon.

It's tough to think before a tournament that you can win.

I don't get caught up in the hoopla, worry about where I'm pitching or if I'm pitching Game 1 or Game 5.

I don't know why, but I don't really get too nervous before games or practices or whatever.

At Tottenham Hotspur, we can share the pressure, but on the South Korea team, some of the players have more pressure than others.

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

I wouldn't be in football if I was nervous. You have to look forward to games.

That is one of the problems big teams face - their rivals always take the field very motivated, and I say this from experience.

When it comes to football, I always prepare like I'm going to be the guy.

After I joined the Indian cricket team, MS Dhoni advised me that I need to avoid reading the newspapers and should try to stay away from social media as much as possible.

You grow up always thinking you'd be in pressure situations all the time, and that's why I put pressure on myself in practice, so when those situations come in the game I feel I can be successful.

I try not to worry about what people think and what people think I should do each fight, how impressive I need to be. I need to go out there and win; that's what it comes down to.

All the players are human beings and need more support to bring their confidence up.

It's impossible, when one team and one player is afraid of something that might happen in a match, they will not play well, they will not have 100 per cent confidence.