Jack Butland Quotes

Pressure brings out the best in me. It's the only way to keep improving: putting a bit of pressure on yourself.

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.

If you want to be in the top teams, you know you have competition in your place.

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.

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.

I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

I would say I thrive in a competitive environment.

With competition everyone has to try harder.

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.

I think the stress of being No. 1 in the world is more of a motivating factor for me just because I don't want to lose it.

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

My managerial ambitions were the same as I had as a player: to become as good as possible and to join the big teams in the big leagues.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

Hopefully I can be one of the best midfielders in the world. That's what drives me on: to try and achieve that and to try and go on and win many things.

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.