Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

I know what it means to play for a big club. Big clubs, it's like that: if you win, everything is good. If you lose, it's your fault, especially defenders and goalkeepers.

Thinking about what Jamaicans want is a bit pressuring. So I try not to think about what Jamaicans want until I get the job done.

Any time a team doesn't score points, it's on me.

A coach's life is that, when you win, it is easy, and when you lose, you're no good; it's all your fault.

Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

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.

Win it, or it's start all over around here.

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

I'm aware that if the ball is thrown in my direction, I'm expected to catch it because the media is going to be on my back.

I always talk about, like, with end-of-game situations, making and missing big shots, I know I can shoulder that. I can live with having the success of the playoffs and having a huge failure. I know I can deal with it.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

There are days when there's no will to do anything. It's not easy for someone in my profession, because you are always meant to be in the limelight. I can't just not turn up, as I will come across as unprofessional, and people won't work with me anymore.

Captains are always criticised.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

When you win, that's what you're expected to do and when you lose, people get on your back.

Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game… Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.

I know how you can feel when you are playing under pressure.

When they take you with the eighth pick, I don't want to say pressure, but you've got a lot of people counting on you.

The pressure is always there to do my best. I feel happy that I have an audience that looks forward to my next project. I have to make sure that I deliver.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

In Austria, everything is my fault when we lose. Whatever I do it's not enough.

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