Edinson Cavani Quotes

Before matches, there is a little bit of pressure, but on the pitch, you forget it all. You only think about playing football.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

I'll play as long as that competitive spirit and drive is there because that's what gets me up in the morning, that feeling of having a batsman drive at you, play and miss, the sort of theatre around that sort of stuff.

When you're on the pitch, you can't think about what the fans are thinking.

At the Olympics, for those eight minutes of each fight, all that attention was on me. Either the crowd is with you or against you.

When the big games come, I show up.

I perform better under pressure. If I go out there, and I'm not nervous, and I'm too relaxed, I don't like that vibe. I like big matches. I like pressure situations.

I wanted to prove myself on the pitch, but I didn't have many chances, so it put a lot more pressure on every single game that I played. I found myself in situations where I was so keen to show my qualities, but many times it worked against me and I was punished for being too eager.

It's impossible, when one team and one player is afraid of something that might happen in a match, they will not play well, they will not have 100 per cent confidence.

The Premier League is so competitive so we have to be very attentive, very focused and not relax in any way - especially when it is thought to be a winnable game.

My thing is, I like if I go on that court and there's a guy I don't have to worry about.

I might be nervous off the court, being booed. But being on the court, it's my comfort zone. It's basketball. It's what I do. I'm not losing sleep over it.

Auditioning sucks!

Sometimes thinking about the Olympics makes me a little nervous.

Football always has pressure.

At a track, it's different, there's pressure, things like this, so to be yourself is a bit different.

When you're playing to get into the playoffs, your contract is the last thing on your mind.

I went to the final of the Champions League, and I scored 32 goals. This pressure does not weigh too much. I'm on the field to have fun and give pleasure to the fans.

You put pressure on yourself to go out and do better. And when you try to do too much, and you're thinking about it too much, it can throw your game off.

When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power.