Jordan Henderson Quotes

You are always having to prove something in football whether you are flying or not.

People with success are less able to cope because you're used to being on Mount Everest and when it's gone, what do you do?

Every time I go on to the court, people expect me to get a medal. It is tough, and I can't win always, but I still have to go out there and give my best.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

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

My senior year was crazy. We were defending champions, we were on national TV just about every weekend, and we were winning. Teams always brought their best when they went up against us, and we always matched it.

The pressure is on the big teams.

Being at NDSU and winning national championships, everyone's gunning for you. You got a big target on your back, and we had to be ready to go week in and week out. I think playing for a program like that, everyone's going to give you their best shot, and we embrace that.

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.

A lot of people, when they are expected to do great things they fold, but you have got to find a way to navigate it.

Anything other than a gold medal will be disappointing.

As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that's fine. I think that comes with anything that's challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.

People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

Competition is not going to kill us.

Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.