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Quotes About Performance

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.
~ Mats Sundin
For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.
~ Shawn Wayans
It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.
~ Matt Dillon
In those days there was not so much pressure on us.
~ Just Fontaine
I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else.
~ Mats Sundin
There is pressure every day as a footballer.
~ Jamie Redknapp
Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.
~ John Otto
I do really well under pressure.
~ Molly Sims
The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
~ Natalie Coughlin
When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.
~ Eric Shanteau
I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.
~ Lindsay Davenport
I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.
~ Danica Patrick
The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.
~ Caroline Wozniacki
I don't feel pressure going into games.
~ Michael Owen
I think there's going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It's a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline, that's something I feed off. I'm just going to go out there and do my best.
~ Jessica Ennis-Hill
Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.
~ Louis C. K.
For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.
~ Fabio Cannavaro
Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.
~ John Simm
I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.
~ Michael Lehmann
Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
~ Yvonne Strahovski
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.
~ Serge Ibaka
Every field has its pressures and stress factors.
~ Divya Dutta
There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.
~ Jordan Henderson
You have to be able to deal with the pressures that playing for a big club like Hibs brings and it's not for everyone.
~ John McGinn