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 go out there, you're not just representing your country or the NBA: you're representing your beliefs. You want to play hard for Someone who died for you.
I think it's important to maintain this momentum and especially when you are representing your country, you have a lot of pressure of people around you and you have to be at your best behaviour.
I've always thought that pressure is trying to feed your family, trying to make a mortgage. We play a game...And this is an amazing game.
The initial feelings when you step into the Olympic arena representing your country, your community, representing yourself can be really overwhelming.
I think there is pressure on every game, we are England and are always looking to win every game and the performances we look to put in have to be top quality.
I've learned that every game is different. You could play one team and have a terrible game and the next time you play them have the best game of your career.
The Olympics is about representing your country, and if you get an opportunity to play you give it all you have.
I constantly caution our teams: 'Play your game, just play your game. Eventually, if you play your game, stick to your style, class will tell in the end.' This does not mean that we will always outscore our opponent, but it does insure that we will not beat ourselves.
If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.
I love to have the pressure of having to win every game, love the pressure of keeping clean sheets every game, no matter if we're 5-0 or 6-0 up.
I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks. That is what I will try to do here. The number I have at Liverpool does not give me any added pressure. The pressure I have is to play well and do my best for the team. I know that I am representing a huge club, and I want to enjoy my football.
I will put pressure on myself to play good every game.
I always knew that whenever you go out there, you're not just representing yourself. You're representing a heritage that's behind you, your culture, so you always have to do things, like, bigger, badder, better.
When you are putting that pressure on yourself to win the Premier League, every game brings pressure, every point counts.