Graeme Smith Pressure Quotations

We came out here expecting a lot of verbal in the papers and things being said. If anything they have been under more pressure than us going into this test match. We have just got on with what we have been doing. We have been very focussed on the things we have been able to control which is our preparation.

He really just puts you under pressure from the word go and he certainly did that today.

We are always going to put the pressure on the likes of (Shane) Watson and Johnson and Lewis.

Overall I feel I handled the pressure well.

Coming out of the Test series, a lot of the guys who were here believed going back home we could beat them. We didn't take our chances. We had them under pressure on a number of cases in the Test series and just didn't drive it home.

I think that they were the team that were choking, if that's the word, under pressure a little bit at the back end.

I don't think he undermines his effectiveness but I think he puts him under a lot of pressure when it comes to decision making and maybe he doubts his own decisions sometimes because Shane is offering so much advice all the time. It's hard to sift through what is good and what is not good, at times.

If anything, they (Australia) have been under more pressure than us going into this test match.

There is a lot of pressure on them. They have been an established team winning everything for so long that people cannot accept that things are not going so well any longer.