Sourav Ganguly Quotes

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

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.

When you are in the second position and you want to be champions, you are always under pressure.

The pressure is on the big teams.

Before I beat Groves people were questioning whether I was good enough to beat him, and I was the underdog and that provides pressure. Now it's the opposite; through beating Groves people expect me to go in and wipe opponents out.

It's normal that there's pressure at Real Madrid.

In China you have to be in peak form because you need to do well. You earn a lot - I had a huge salary - but then you have to prove you are worth it. Every match is a challenge and I played next to or faced some truly great players.

Everybody expects you to play well, and when you don't have the results, that's tough.

With high-profile jobs, comes pressure and competition.

It's always pressure in sport. It was a lot of pressure since Day 1 in Orlando, and it's going to be always pressure, but I think those pressures make us better.

When you play constantly for strong sides, then the pressure is always on you.

I expect to make big plays. And when I don't, I'm upset about it.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

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

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.

I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.

I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.