Connor McDavid Quotes

When you score 30 goals in a season, you can expect that the following year there will be a little bit more pressure and attention on you.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

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.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

My parents think I'm better under pressure.

I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.

When you are in the second position and you want to be champions, you are always under pressure.

A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that's down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.

At all big clubs, there is pressure. They all want to win and expect to win.

You have to have those times when your hunger and drive is in a different place because you're under pressure to have success.

It's normal that there's pressure at Real Madrid.

When you are successful, there is the pressure of performing consistently; when you are not, there is the pressure of coming back and doing well.

I hope I can show my talent in every game.

That's what happens when you play in L.A. Everybody expects you to do well.

Football always has pressure.

Every record I do does a little better than the last, which in turn makes me more stressed out.

It was nice to have success in the SheBelieves Cup, but that just brings more pressure.

There's always pressure and that pressure is earned.

Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.

Even when I play in World Cups, I don't look at things like that. It's something that I want to be doing, so why would I put extra pressure on myself? I'm just going to go out there and enjoy it.

I think pressure is great; it can make the game more exciting and force us to play our best.

I've always had a lot of pressure on myself, but I'm not going to lie, I feel a lot of pressure to give the fans everything they expect plus more.

People keep comparing me to Virat Kohli.

The questions that loom can be intimidating. 'What kind of moves is she gonna make? What is she gonna do?' There is this pressure that you're supposed to keep impressing.