Martina Navratilova Quotes

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

I can just remember what I have seen, and then I often think about how I do well throughout the match, and then, if I miss one chance, everyone talks about the miss. Only that.

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 cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

Pitching, if you have a bad start, a lot of the blame is put on you and then you have to sit around and think about it all week. And the same thing with kicking. You either make it or miss and no one is going to make excuses for you. The mentalities of the two are very comparable.

If ever I am the underdog I seem to play well and whenever I am the favourite I put too much pressure on myself.

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

There is pressure, and I would never complain about that, but as players we put pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one thing I won't miss when I finally stop playing.

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.

When you're winning, you're a hero. When you're losing, you're a bum... I'm as bad as the fans, believe me. If they only knew how I hate losing and what we go through to try to win.

In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d'Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don't know what will happen. This pressure is inside you - you always have it.

It's hard because, throughout your whole career, you're known as the top player, the best on your team, you're playing the most minutes, and then you might not get in the game. You don't know when you're going to get in the game.

I hate to go into games thinking about goals.

When I went to Gladbach from Basel in 2012, I put a lot of pressure on myself at first, and it was too heavy. I will not put any pressure on myself at Arsenal, even though the transfer fee was high.

It's something I have to remind myself about, that at every competition, I put a lot of pressure on myself, almost like it's the end of the world, and I have to keep reminding myself it's not.

If I follow the media and everyone that tries to set expectations for me because I'm a high draft pick, if I follow that, I will never become a great player.

Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.

I think being world number one and world champion, pressure comes with that.

Everyone in the Premier League feels pressure to get results. It is part of being a footballer.

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.

It's normal to be under pressure. I'm fighting professionally for 15 years, and it's always been like that.

The World Cup, as an event, carries a lot of pressure, irrespective of the number of caps you have earned, and the pressure doubles when you play at home.

I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.