Christian Horner Quotes

Maybe being number one has got to me, because from there you can only go down.

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

At a club like Liverpool, you have to win everything possible, and you have to play for both - the Premier League and the Champions League.

I've experienced it with Chelsea Women: it can be very hard at the top for long periods of time, fighting just to stay in the same position and to preserve an unbeaten run that will always come to an end.

In the world of football only the results are important.

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.

We all like being part of the Premier League. There is a lot of attention and we enjoy that but football is always the same. If you win, you have friends. If you don't win, you are looking for friends. That's the game.

I used to focus so much on winning. I used to be such a perfectionist.

It doesn't matter who we play against, whether it is Barcelona or another big team: when you are Man United, you do not have an excuse. You have to win.

It's a difficult place being on top because, for me, beating the Average Joe has no significance, but for the Average Joe, beating me could be the biggest match of his life, potentially.

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.

Brazil doesn't get a lot of gold medals, so whenever I get a chance, everybody expects me to win, and to get second is a big disappointment.

I think it's bad in a way for junior players and college players to feel they must be number one.

This is football: one day you win, one day you lose, and there's a very fine line between them.

All I wanted to do was win. People have to remember that when I came to Duke, they'd started to get a reputation that they can't win the big game. We were aware of that, and we hated it.

I've said before that when you win, people think it's so easy, but it's not so easy to handle it, and probably I expect myself to always play so good.

The line between winning and losing is very thin, and wins give you prestige, stability, and continuity.

Trust me, Stade is not a comfortable place to be if you're losing, regardless of the venue.

Everyone dreams of playing for Madrid, but we all know that it can be life or death.

It's always pressure in sport. It was a lot of pressure since Day 1 in Orlando, and it's going to be always pressure, but I think those pressures make us better.

Nobody wants to be losing, especially in New York. It's extremely tough. That's how it is.

You have to win football matches, and if you don't, you allow people to criticise you.

I joined Bayern at the age of 11, and from then on it was all about being up to the competition. It doesn't matter who you face, you are always the favorite. You learn this at a young age. And this continues throughout your career at Bayern Munich, you are always the favorite or one of the favorites in every competition you are involved in.

I can accept defeat, but I love to win and be competitive. It is my job, and I love it.

I've played regularly in a big club at Benfica, where it is not easy and there is a lot of pressure. In those years I learned to be a winner and play under that pressure.