Quotes About Pressure

When you're the older guy, everybody talks about you. When you win, everybody talks about you. When you lose, everybody talks about you.

The basketball stuff has been the easiest part. The stuff that comes out of it, you lose a game and everyone talks about it on TV the next day. They may say some things that you may not agree with.

Contract year isn't what everyone else talks about. For a player, it's just another year in the league.

My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

I know it's odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you never get to just strap on a tank and jump into the ocean. You have to know how deep you're going, and the deeper you go, the less amount of time you stay down there - and it takes longer to get to the surface.

I used to do fake tanning because I was told that I didn't look great.

I've got plenty on my plate. Till then, Ishii can piss his sorrows in a teapot and brew himself a hot cup of fuck off.

The five of us are the big brains supposedly in charge of Hell. Really, we're a bunch of second-rate mechanics trying to keep the wheels from coming off a burning gasoline truck skidding toward a school bus full of orphans and kittens.

Reality is a two-ton weight strapped to your balls. And they just keep getting heavier.

I wait up front like some asshole whose mom is picking out his suit for prom night right in front of all the mean girls from school.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

In school, you're getting a grade. Whenever you're getting a grade for something, you always feel slightly pressured.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

Hoover wrote, "The necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data.

pressed into the gravel, pressed into the dirt, pressing against each other in an effort to make the minutes stop—

A director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you, laugh with you and wait outside your stage door when you're hot and on a roll, but no audience is ever truly friendly. Not for long. Bore 'em or disappoint 'em - even once - and they'll turn on you and tear you to pieces, regardless of who you are or might once have been.

He knew that the moment he allowed what his life meant to enter fully into his consciousness, he would either kill himself or someone else. So he denied himself and acted tough.

That's how we both got committed to this enormous delusion—because that's what it is, an enormous, obscene delusion—this idea that people have to resign from real life and 'settle down' when they have families.

The sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room. A woman's only son came home insane, confronting her with God only knew what agonies of grief and guilt, and still she busied herself with the doings of the zoning board, with little chirrups of neighborly good cheer and cardboard boxes full of garden plants.

I'd have to kill Dimitri for real this time and lose any chance I might have to bring back my prince. Damn. It's a good thing I work well under pressure.

I'm telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it's like being caught between groups

Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

It's a good thing I work well under pressure.