Granit Xhaka Quotes

It is hard sometimes, we live in a world where results and all these things matter.

The price of being the best is having to be the best.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

We simply must do better.

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

Those who can keep achieving results are the big players at the big clubs. If you cannot get the results, you just can't play and move away.

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

If you are considered as favourites, you have stand up and deliver. You can't make too many mistakes. You have to be the best.

Obviously, you want to do well. As a competitor you don't like not doing well.

My father just instilled in me that either you're going to be No. 1 or nothing at all.

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.

With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.