Jamie Carragher Quotes

Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game… Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to perform their best whenever they are at work.

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

I can't remember ever racing without any pressure.

Been dealing with pressure since I've been playing sports, so that's why I play the position. It's a pressure-packed position and I love it.

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.

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

I truly believe that players who tell you they don't feel the pressure of international cricket, of being away from home for months at a time, are lying to everyone and themselves.

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

If people want to put the pressure on me that fine but I don't put pressure on myself - that is where pressure comes from.

No one puts more pressure on themselves than me as far as an individual thing.

I've seen young guys break down in those situations. They're cruising along, playing great, then their minutes get funky and they fall apart. Some of them never recover.

Honestly... I've never felt pressure working in basketball. There's no pressure at all. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.

I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.

I think we all have had better days in competition.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.