Quotes About Pressure

It's not about guys getting minutes or scoring 20 points or getting playing time. To me, it's about if you've got to make one 3-pointer to win that championship, we need you to make that one 3-pointer. Whatever it takes.

One day I'd have 20 points, the next day two points. I was dribbling the ball off my leg. I couldn't understand why. The media started asking me, 'Is this because you are a new dad?' I didn't want to blame my son. There are plenty of people in much worse situations, and they make it work. I have to do that, too.

Sometimes I just put some first serve in, which, on break points, it's pretty important.

I've learned that I can be calm during important points.

In our league, 20 points in the first half isn't anything.

We really were poised to make 'Rumours 2,' and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner in terms of living up to the labels that were being placed on you as a band.

Whenever I guard a guard, I don't want to reach too much, but I will poke at the ball once to get him thinking.

The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.

In both snooker and poker, you have to play your best under pressure; I was always able to do that. I don't think it is something you can teach. Your mental strength, your confidence, your self-belief has got to be very strong. That is the common denominator.

In poker, position is power. When you've got position, play more hands and apply more pressure before the flop.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

For most of my political life I was not ecstatic but I was happy because I had huge confidence in the causes I espoused and the work I was doing. Even under extreme pressure I was satisfied that I was fighting a good fight.

I think in political life you can only know your position and stay in place, even though people always try to push you to one side.

In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.

Pony' was one of the biggest songs of my career. It was really hard to follow that up.

Any time I had my hair in a ponytail, it would give me a headache by the end of the day.

When I pull my hair back in a ponytail, that's how you know I'm having a hard day.

When you're a pop star it doesn't mean you just get free stuff.

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

It was kind of like, my worst crime was that I was a pop star.