Joe DiMaggio Quotes

One thing about being in Metallica is I've always felt challenged.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And not just good songs, but great songs. After a while, great songs won't do - they have to be the best. Success doesn't make it any easier. Each time I start a new record, it's a brand-new search.

If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.

I'm not a hit machine.

For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

At Liverpool and England, it's about moving forward and going in the right direction, and you don't want to be left behind by any means.

Jean Tigana wants to go to the top with Fulham, and I like that ambition.

Even when I play in World Cups, I don't look at things like that. It's something that I want to be doing, so why would I put extra pressure on myself? I'm just going to go out there and enjoy it.

Winning isn't all that matters.

We're all trying so hard to win each of these World Series events and the standard now is phenomenal but it's great that everyone's pushing each other.

I still have to unify my division and basically become the undefeated welterweight champion of the world. I can't lose. It is more added pressure, but it does make me work harder and keeps me more focused.

People keep comparing me to Virat Kohli.

I never got into this business to do interviews. It was always about the music.

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

It's very difficult to have the same motivation in the season after you've won two trophies.

A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.

I think that is when guys are at their best: when you put pressure and have something to work towards and have something to compare yourself to or try to best them, it really does make you better.

Competing makes me that much more driven and, honestly, I perform better under pressure.

Of course I want to score.

For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.

I want to be great.

You play football to go out there and win - that's the bottom line.

You have to win before anything else.