Quotes About Stress

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.

There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

With United the spotlight is always on and there's always going to be that pressure, no matter what the game is.

Sometimes when you are playing non-stop international cricket in all formats - which was the case with Jadeja - you do well one day, get hammered the next, and immediately the spotlight is on you. That eats into you.

The mere mention of domestic service brings some people out in spots of outrage, but there is a crying need for relatively low-level employment. It's ridiculous that people at the top are killing themselves in demanding jobs and then coming home to mow their own lawns.

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

I was embarrassed this spring when corona came. Everything in life had been so fast and seemed so important and then I realised the kind of stress that I allowed myself to be under, and I was embarrassed.

The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.

You do sometimes wish there were a few more hours in the day to squeeze a bit more in.

I feel like a mosquito being squeezed.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

I don't want to get back into the pressure cooker of play-by-play and worry about travel. I don't want to die in a stadium parking lot.

When I was managing Cream and the Bee Gees at the same time - when they were playing stadiums all over the world - it was very wearing.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

It's not easy to keep good sleep habits as an entrepreneur, especially at the early stages when there's always a fire to put out.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.