Paul Scholes Quotes

Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.

I'm not saying there's no pressure at Evergrande, there's pressure at Evergrande all the time. But I am myself and, no matter if I'm playing for Real Madrid or at the World Cup, I've never felt pressure.

I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.

If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.

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 feel like, growing up, I haven't had a lot of room for error - I don't have room to make mistakes. You need to make mistakes to grow and learn, but I'm just a little different because the world is watching me, every single thing I do.

Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.

If I have a keeper who makes a mistake in consecutive games and is dropped, when he plays again, there is pressure on him because that is the level of the game we are at.

While winning may not always personify the Big Apple, attitude certainly does. Players get called to the carpet. So do coaches, managers, executives, owners, and anyone associated with them. No one is safe.

It's tough being the one person on the hot seat.

Everybody's expecting a lot from me.

Playing at Kentucky, before 24,000 people, you have to learn how to grow real fast and play under pressure and playing on ESPN with millions of people watching. Right away, you learn how to play under control.

Everybody is always looking at the best in the world with a magnifying glass and they are criticised more than others.

If I was playing for a club in mid-table, I could make three or four mistakes, and no one would notice because the analysis is not at the top level. But when you play for a big club, every little mistake is highlighted. So every day, you work, work, work.

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

The pressure at Real Madrid is independent of the outcome of other teams and is always the highest.

Felix Magath works with pressure. At first, we didn't know where we stood with him. That prompted the players to give their best because they wanted to play, but after a while the players knew where they stood and Magath no longer received the same effect.

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

I've been a manager in the Premier League for many years and you do become conservative when you're in that bottom section. There's so much stress, because it is so important and there's so much scrutiny.

In a World Cup you don't have anywhere to hide.

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

The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for granted.

I understand that we're paid a lot of money and we're in the limelight. When things don't go well, there's deserved criticism.

There are some things you have to accept come with being really good at something: more attention, more eyes on you, every move you make - whether good or bad, you have to answer. If that's the price of where I want to get, it'll be worth it.

Pressure, responsibility - I'm used to playing in big clubs.