Luis Enrique Quotes

If they don't score, we can't lose.

It is a lot harder when you are 4-1 down than when you are 4-1 up.

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. 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.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to do well and score more, and it will be a matter of time. Once you get back into that rhythm, you will start getting balls that drop to you in positions where it wasn't before. I do have that feeling that it is going to come soon.

You go into battle with your strengths.

The main thing is to score a goal in the first half. Then everything will be possible.

The players come out and want to be as fresh as they can, press, keep a team in their end, create chances, create set pieces, and really try and get the upper hand early.

When you get to a tournament, everybody wants to do well, especially against a seeded player.

Before I beat Groves people were questioning whether I was good enough to beat him, and I was the underdog and that provides pressure. Now it's the opposite; through beating Groves people expect me to go in and wipe opponents out.

It's better to be the underdog than have all the pressure, for sure.

Whenever you go up 2-0, you understand that teams are going to be desperate.

Scoring first changes everything. It makes everything easier for us.

It makes absolutely no sense for me to turn down a fight I desperately want.

When the opposition team sense that there is fear, they take advantage without mercy.

Of course, Hazard can create problems in each moment of the match.

Most opponents aren't Ronaldo! You have to show him respect but not too much, because that's when you get taken advantage of.

I have a good record in shoot-outs. In such moments, I'm always confident of making at least a couple of stops; I always feel the taker is under more strain. Worrying is the kicker's job, as he's expected to score, while I have nothing to lose.

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.