Emmanuel Adebayor Quotes

When you're playing for Real Madrid, even when you're playing well, you're under scrutiny.

A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that's down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

Playing in the OHL, people expect you to get a ton of points. When you go out and have a good game it's almost like people expect that out of you.

I think if you play for Chelsea you have to deal with the pressure, everybody knows the expectations.

It's a great happiness and deep pride to equal Andre Guy's record for goals in a season.

It's normal that there's pressure at Real Madrid.

When you are next to Harry Kane, achieving all he is and scoring so many goals, it's normal that the focus is on Harry Kane.

After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

You speak bad of me, I score goals.

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.