Adam Vinatieri Quotes

You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.

I just want to be in there at the end of the game to try to help the team win. The last six minutes of an NBA game is where you make your name, so hopefully I'm in there trying to help my guys win.

The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.

Field goal kicking is wildly exciting for all the wrong reasons. We regularly interrupt games to go for a ride on the equivalent of Disney's stomach-in-throat Tower of Terror.

There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.

When you're part of a World Cup, it's always now or never.

Obviously everyone wants to play a certain way but when you get into certain moments you need someone to hold it up or if you are losing a game, go long.

Everybody wants to play late, everybody wants to be clutch.

If you've got one guy you know is going to get that ball in crunch time, it's easier to defend him. But if you have five guys who can get that ball in crunch time, it's harder.

On third down, anytime our team needs a play, I want to be the guy that gets the ball.

There is always a chance to score the equaliser with a set piece.

The fourth quarter is where players are made.

I guess sometimes when the game is on the line you kind of focus a little more.

The hardest thing about kicking a kick at the end of the game or end of the half is not letting your excitement get the best of you.

To be given the chance to play for United is a dream, and I'm always willing to go when asked.

I've always enjoyed the emotion of being out there in the last minute of a game or the last couple minutes down by a goal. I think a lot of guys tend to thrive in that situation and I prefer to be out there.

Winning the World Cup is what we have to do with Brazil. Every day that is what is in my head.

You want to go out there and do what's best for the team, help your team move the ball down the field, make plays, help them win football games.

A striker always wants to score as many as possible, but what's more important is the team's success.

In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.

My favorite goals are the ones when there's so much pressure. I focus more when the game is on the line.

The game has been great to me. The Steelers have been great to me, and I think things will work out and take its toll. But I'm just singularly focused on being a great player, being here around the guys and my teammates, and representing my family.

Ray Clemence was the best in the world at having nothing to do for 89 minutes and then in the 90th minute making a great save.