Zion Williamson Quotes

When I step up to that penalty spot, I know the consequences. They're the same whether I miss the first, second, third - or the 10th - it will be the same.

Relegation - that's pressure.

I don't like sitting on the bench because I get more nervous there than when I am playing!

Criticism comes with the territory when you don't win games.

Everyone's just looking at you. They're expecting you to win every game, and it's just not possible.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

Win it, or it's start all over around here.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.

I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

If you win a game, everyone is happy, and if you lose, everyone is watching you.

Football is constant pressure, from day to day. You need to know how to live with that.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.

Missing a game or getting a little bit of a bump up or getting a scolding once in a while puts everybody in their right place.

Sometimes when people play for their country, I think there is that little bit of fear and pressure.