Cristiano Ronaldo Quotes

Any fight I feel pressure, just the same as the last one, the next one will be just as important.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

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

Every young lad's dream is to play for England, but when you get the chance, there's bound to be pressure and a few nerves.

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

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 can't remember ever racing without any pressure.

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.

I can just remember what I have seen, and then I often think about how I do well throughout the match, and then, if I miss one chance, everyone talks about the miss. Only that.

The Champions League is special. You play at a higher level, so you have to be very focused and have greater motivation.

The World Cup, as an event, carries a lot of pressure, irrespective of the number of caps you have earned, and the pressure doubles when you play at home.

The Champions League is unbelievably big. The whole show before, the fans, the players you play against, the people who are going to watch the game, the pressure - it's very special.

You always feel pressure to do your best, and when you know that the story revolves around you, it can become very overwhelming.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

If ever I am the underdog I seem to play well and whenever I am the favourite I put too much pressure on myself.

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

Playing for relegation and livelihoods and people's jobs - that's pressure. Being at the top of the table, we should be enjoying it.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.