Crucial Moments Quotes

History thrusts greatness upon people in crucial moments.

Every game in this league is close, and it's going to come down to making plays at the end.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments.

Opportunities are running out, and this is the do-or-die situation when the ball is in your hands, and you can either help your team to victory or not. And so I want to be in those situations. I think about them, and almost look forward to them.

Players are under such pressure in crucial moments, especially at the highest level with what is on the line.

Teams full of talent and top-flight experience know when to engage a tackle at crucial times, when to compete in an aerial duel or seize on a chance - often resulting in the net rippling.

Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

The thing I've always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there's so much importance on every play.

There are always those moments in football - and life in general - which can decide the path and the route you go down.

When you are playing teams of this quality, you might get one or two good chances in 90 minutes; that is why it is so important that we take them.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

When it mattered the most, my mother was there for me. It was the moment that erased all those days she wasn't there.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

You know when I say that things happen in matches? Well, it just happened there.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

My target is to score in every match here at the 2012 Olympics. I am hoping to land on target with my penalty corner shots at crucial moments.

There are times in your life where you need to make vital choices.

Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.