Quotes About Stress

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

During the day, I was a doctor. At night, you know, I was a comic. And it was really just to let off some steam. It just became my golf, you know, in many ways. Most doctors have golf as a hobby. Mine was doing comedy.

If it's stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You've planned, you've trained, you've done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that's facing you. And then after that, there's nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

We cannot expect our men and women in uniform to be at their best if they are worried about their spouse and children back home.

Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

When I used to see things in the newspapers, going onto the pitch was the best way to get away from it.

When you're out there in the heat of the moment and you're pitching, and it's a big situation, you're saying 'Don't throw a ball, don't give up a hit, don't walk this guy.' But the harder you want to control something the more it gets out of your control.

When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.

The biggest was me running Lionhead at its peak. That was about 305 people. I'd say that was, for me as a creative, one of the most hellish times of my life. Normally running a team is like herding cats. This was like herding the entire African plains.

I'm on a lot of airplanes. There are definitely times when I just vapor-lock. I'm on the plane, and I have so much to do, I just don't know what to do. It never lasts for very long. It might last for the flight.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.

I hate planes.

I've always got loads on my plate, so I should concentrate on fewer things. I take multitasking to a ridiculous degree.

If we can't handle pressure, we don't play football.

The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!

Dealing with political things, it's not for me. It makes me crazy. I want to buy, you want to sell. Please make it simple.

Between 2008 and 2010 I exhausted myself because I wanted to please everyone.

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

I don't even listen to music on the road, and if I did, it would be classical or whatever, something to chill me out.