Gautam Gambhir Quotes

I just think I play better in the greater scenarios. I just get motivated. I like the big crowds on the centre courts.

We're in Madison Square Garden, I can't let you beat me in Madison Square Garden, are you serious!?

Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

The best thing is to go into an opposing arena, and 15,000 people are focusing on you. That's the best feeling.

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

It is always great to be a position like this, where you play for everything because it is so exciting.

I don't have anything against United. Playing them won't make me run any faster or try any harder.

Any game in the World Cup is a tough game. The atmosphere brings a lot out of both teams.

When you play against important teams, you obviously feel more motivated.

The first game I played against the University of Miami, I was very nervous - eyes wide open.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.

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

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

I've got to have a bet going in order to play my best.

Pressure makes me produce. Kills most guys. Mortifies 'em.