Michy Batshuayi Quotes

There have been times in my football career where I've thought: 'Is this it? Is this as far as I'm going to go?'

It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.

If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Unfortunately, it's a part of football that you have to accept the decision of the manager when you're not playing, no matter how difficult it might be.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

I can just remember what I have seen, and then I often think about how I do well throughout the match, and then, if I miss one chance, everyone talks about the miss. Only that.

It's frustrating when you don't feel like you help the team like you should, but at the end of the day there's going to be ups and downs and it's how you react.

Every professional athlete has fear, doubts and negative thoughts. But people expect you to just ignore them and move forward.

They always say baseball is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical, whatever that saying is. I don't even think I know it. But this game is already a game of failure. Going into it not feeling good, battling whatever injuries, tests you even more.

If you start badly, and the crowd get on your case, there is no way back. But if you start well and your confidence is high all that booing becomes music to your ears.

After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover.

I always feel pressure, no matter what I do! I think it is what gets me up in the morning.

I think anybody that has had a bad game, or, I dunno, I guess if you go out golfing and you hook a couple balls, are you thinking about it until you get it figured out?

It did not matter whether it was preseason, regular season, my first playoff game, or the Super Bowl, I was nervous. And all that meant was that it always mattered to me. Anytime I was putting myself on a line, it didn't matter what it was, it was okay to be nervous because it was important to me. It was important to do my job well.

I've always felt like if I had a bad practice, I could potentially get cut the next day.

Any fight I feel pressure, just the same as the last one, the next one will be just as important.

I find it very difficult when, due to a lack of confidence, I don't produce and lose matches I could have won.

When I stepped up a division I can remember suffering the worst fatigue I had ever felt. I noticed it massively.

Changing over to the UFC, I was trying to force myself to thinking, like, 'This was it; this is the most important thing.'

Every young lad's dream is to play for England, but when you get the chance, there's bound to be pressure and a few nerves.

When I was at Everton, I went through a lot of up and down spells, lacking in confidence.

Usually if you haven't figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.

There's always a little bit of anticipation - some people call it nerves - the night before, and although I always slept pretty well before big matches, you want to be on edge a little bit to get the best out of yourself.