Mauricio Pochettino Quotes

I think it's true for all of us, if you find yourself doing really well at something, then the pressure is on you to try to improve.

I demand a lot and we look to improve, but I'm glad that Atleti are expected to be among the best every year.

Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.

Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there's the thought, 'Why can't they catch up?'

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

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.

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.

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

There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.

No matter how angry people on the outside were when you don't perform well, a coach is 10 times what anyone else is feeling. Nothing digs at you more. But that's part of our business.

It's difficult to keep going the good results, to feel good every tournament, every year in row.

When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.

As German players we have something special inside us, because of our football history. We know we have to win, it is what is expected, so we have a good focus.

When playing for Japan, it means that I carry my country on my shoulders and I feel a different kind of pressure as I am expected to do more when playing for Japan.

We all know when you have a huge price tag on your shoulders, there's always a lot more pressure on you, a lot more expectation.

You are under some sort of pressure to win any match. It is natural.

Sometimes I was wrong about my players. Sometimes I want more and more from them; sometimes I am so demanding, but they showed me how good they are.