Quotes About Pressure

I can't be under the weight of the character for a 14-hour shooting day. I don't think anybody can do that.

Everybody shoots better when they are uncontested.

I only really set short-term goals because I don't want to put too much pressure on myself.

When shots are going for six and you're playing well, everyone is trying to big you up. Mis=hit one, get out, all the negative people come out.

It's my job to make shots. But the big shift is that I understand it's actually my job to take these shots.

Obviously, you hope to make shots. But you can't put too much pressure on yourself to make it, because whether or not they go in, you're creating space everybody else.

I hate big shots of adrenaline. It means you don't have enough margin.

Sometimes you get nervous because you cannot make shots and then you rush your shot and then you take bad shots and then you get even more nervous.

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

I think the first goal can be weight off your shoulders.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

That's the competitive nature in me. Just wanting to be the best and wanting to do everything I have to in order for this team to make it that far. You put pressure on your shoulders.

Players sometimes don't want to have this heavy weight on their shoulders to carry the team or to get asked in certain situations to have that responsibility.

The whole nation thinks I should be winning, winning, winning all the time and that's a lot to take on my shoulders.

When your band is no longer just your band but is an industry within an industry it can be a lot on youngish shoulders.

But this is called show business, not show family.

I hate show business.

People who go into show business are screwed up.

There's a lot of people in show business who have show business parents.

I hate the showbiz scene.

It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!'

Don't let awards get the best of you.