"I'm not putting extra pressure on myself," Rusnák said in his news conference that day. "I know what's expected. I know I have to deliver, and that will be up to me to do on the field."
“He has charisma, he has personality, he’s not afraid of who he is,” RSL general manager Craig Waibel said. “And so he’s very natural, not only in front of a camera, but even when cameras are off. There’s no act involved when Albert’s speaking, and there’s no act involved when someone’s putting a camera on him. … I think one of the big things is when we see athletes, when we see entertainers — singers, be it actors, whatever it is — we innately are drawn to the ones who we feel like allow us to know who they are.