Kristaps Porzingis Quotes

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to perform their best whenever they are at work.

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.

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

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

That's two different influences... The Warriors nation as a fan base, that's a whole lot of pressure. Then you got the pressure of playing with some greats.

The NBA is tough. Everybody plays hard and every game is vital.

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

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.

I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.

I love how professional sports unite a city and a group of people.

I can't remember ever racing without any pressure.

To reach the biggest club in the world where there are millions of fans and a lot of pressure was a brutal change.

At the beginning of the first season, you don't have that pressure to perform at 100 per cent, because it's always hard when you first start. But now, in the second season, people are expecting big things from you, so you can't really disappoint them.

I never cared for stuff like the All-Star Game.

In professional sports, you live in the moment, and that's what I love about it.

Being in a career and going from highlight to highlight and playing a lot of matches you go through it and think it's normal when you play in front of 60,000 and you almost want to vomit in front of every game.

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

When you come to a club like Hibs not everyone can handle it, there's pressure in every single game to get results.

The crowd in big venues can really make or crush players.

I grew up playing sports, so I think of what it would be like to be in the NBA if you were a great player when Michael Jordan was playing. You could've been a phenomenal player, but you're in the Jordan era. That's the unfortunate thing about the competitive nature of entertainment. But we know what we signed up for.