Jan Vertonghen Quotes

It's hard being on the best team in the world.

When you play for Barcelona, there is always pressure to win - you play for something special. It's the same when you player for Tottenham; the names are not important.

Playing in a team like Barca, you always feel pressure. The demand is to win everything, but this is good for you as a footballer: it makes you play better.

When I played for Arsenal, like once per month, you always had this feeling you had to perform.

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.

You are always having to prove something in football whether you are flying or not.

There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.

I never played for records. If I had played for records, then I would have had many more runs against my name. If, by your performance, the team wins, then that is what is most gratifying.

When things are going well, everyone's coming into training, having a lot of banter and joking about and enjoying things, and when you are not, it's not that feeling, because the expectation level is to win.

At all big clubs, there is pressure. They all want to win and expect to win.

You are under some sort of pressure to win any match. It is natural.

Jordan never stepped out on the court to have a good time. He stepped out there to establish that he was the best.

At Juve you were first or you were nothing. If we went out of the Champions League it was a tragedy. I saw team-mates who did not eat for a week.

Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

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

We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time.

I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.

I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and, really, win absolutely every game. There is no game where people don't expect you to win. So, having played there for three years, pressure is nothing that would scare me.

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.