Quotes About Pressure

You really want to try to continue to pile up outs as often as you possibly can. Whether they get a hit or not really doesn't affect the way you continue to approach that lineup, especially with a five-run lead.

Sometimes there can be pressure to post, especially from your followers.

Every day I get something in the post telling me to worry about something else. Worry mail is big business.

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

You just go from sort of normal life - nobody knowing your name and what you look like - to it being a matter of two months or something and there are people making posters and holding your name up and camping outside your house and really crazy stuff.

I remember an interview so terrible with CNN's Jon Klein, I nearly blurted out, 'Forget it, I am a loser!' But I didn't need to say it. My face and posture did.

Imagine two years worth of stuff that you've been holding on to and everything just keeps piling up to the point where the pot just overflows. You know what happens when a pot overflows? It hits the side of the pan and it hits the fire and the fire just explodes.

When I lose a big pot, I go a little crazy.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

If you want to talk about potential risk, more guys get injured on a field goal than extra point.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

Knowing that I was potentially going to be the first black Bachelorette actually held me back from wanting to do it. With the first, there's always so much pressure. And I knew I was going to be new to the audience as a lead for a number of reasons - being over 30, being a career woman, and also being black.

I've always felt like if I had a bad practice, I could potentially get cut the next day.

For me, I feel like every time I go out there, I have to prove something, because whether it's fans or the fighters I'm going to fight potentially or am scheduled to fight, there's always an excuse of why I won.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

I have the same 10 pounds that shifts from my shoulders to my gut over the summer.

I'm 300 pounds. If I fall on anybody, it's going to hurt.

I was 15 years old, taken out into a parking lot on the set of 'Donny & Marie,' and at the time I was 5-foot-5 and 103 pounds - like, nothing. I was told I was an embarrassment to my family and the show would be canceled if I didn't lose 10 pounds.

I think being in a car is far more dangerous. I feel much more in control with a 16 foot croc, 3,000 pounds jaw pressure trying to have a go at me.

In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.