Lukas Podolski Quotes

You expect to have to soak up some pressure when you are playing Manchester City away from home.

There's always pressure at a big club.

It is always pressure out there when you are favourite for the match.

When you play for Manchester United, the pressure's on every week.

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

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.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and, really, win absolutely every game. There is no game where people don't expect you to win. So, having played there for three years, pressure is nothing that would scare me.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

I'd much rather have that pressure than be at the end of the field and no one expecting you to win. That's the kind of pressure that you've got to enjoy and love.

It's harder when you're supposed to win. When you're talking about the best players and the best teams in the world, when you talk about the Heat, you can ask them - it's not easy.

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

Coming to Crystal Palace, I'm really excited to be playing. There's still massive competition here.

In Champions League home games, you expect to win.

A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that's down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.

The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we're playing into November every year.

I've dealt with expectations my whole life and have been blessed to be able to play at a high level, whether it's football or baseball.

At all big clubs, there is pressure. They all want to win and expect to win.

Everyone in the Premier League feels pressure to get results. It is part of being a footballer.

Going to the Combine, I had a lot of eyes on me, high praise on me, so I had to perform well at the Combine, or everything would have just went downhill.

Competition is to be expected at a club like Arsenal.

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

I had no direct experience of a relegation scrap, but with Wales, I never had the luxury of being allowed to lose games. I was under pressure to win even the friendlies.