Ross Barkley Quotes

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

I've always had a lot of pressure on myself, but I'm not going to lie, I feel a lot of pressure to give the fans everything they expect plus more.

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

For me, there's a lot of expectations and you want to be able to live up to them.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.

When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.

It is hard sometimes, we live in a world where results and all these things matter.

It's a responsibility when you have won as much as I have done, as much as the teams I have played for have done: then the fans are waiting for more.

From a very young age people have been touting me as a world champion. So it can be tough, playing in the spotlight and people expecting big things from you all the time.

I was always taught that pressure comes when you aren't prepared or didn't work hard enough.

I carried around a lot of weight and anxiety - expectations of being a top draft pick and fulfilling those. It was really burdensome and not fun. Stressful. I had to go through some things before I finally turned that around and got back to playing for the right reasons.

We feel pressure from every angle to meet expectations, but the pressure also pushes us in a positive was as well.

A lot of people expect a lot of things out of me.

It's a great thing to have: that pressure everywhere you go, that responsibility. I think it's good to have it.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

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

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.