Quotes About Pressure

You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.

It's a sensitive thing, playing major league baseball.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'

A sequel is going to be a pressure no matter who directs it. A sequel is only made when the original film works.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

It's not a break until you hold your serve.

Against Serena, you never know how she's serving.

I'm not going to be perfect on the field, I'm not going to be perfect in my postgame answers or any media session.

You can't wicket 5-6 wickets every session.

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

If you are very nervous, it is going to affect you and you start feeling tired or anxiety sets in.

However much I try, I can't shake off the effects of the yips.

Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard.

I love to have the pressure of having to win every game, love the pressure of keeping clean sheets every game, no matter if we're 5-0 or 6-0 up.

My head was - I wasn't screwed up, but I feel like I was shifted away from my family a lot with this basketball stuff. You have people coming around you saying they are family or whatever. They try to keep you away from your real family. That kind of got me.

I've always felt in my career - fighting, wrestling, boxing - that the bigger the fight is for me, the more the pressure is on, the more that I shine. The more that the best comes out in me.

I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'

When you are putting on that England shirt there is pressure to perform, but if you have been around it from a younger age I think you become ready for it.

Sometimes, a national team's shirt is heavy.

To wear the Juventus shirt is an honor, but it's also very heavy.

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.