Quotes About Pressure

In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.

With big clubs, it's always very demanding.

Madrid is a club with very high demands.

The high demands on teams in national leagues and of course the Champions League - it's too much.

I have been driven demented in my career.

My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous, and I am capable of doing something to blow it on purpose. A lot of actors have that problem.

You learn that in so many of our matches, it can all depend on just four or five points.

Whenever you make someone dependent on your money... It's this capitalist idea that I think has made America into a place where it's hard to breathe as an individual sometimes.

It depends a lot on the character of the players, how you respond under pressure.

Having worked with some of the characters in football and having to be nice to them - and knowing your job depends on you having to be nice to them - just doesn't appeal to me.

A coach depends on whether I take a corner well or finish a chance in front of goal, and really, what influence does he have over this when it happens?

That is the difference from being a manager and being a player: As a player, if you sign a contract for four years, if you want to be there for four years, you are. But as a manager, it always depends on the sack. You are always under pressure.

To be an elite athlete is really hard when you're depressed.

I knew I didn't have post-natal depression because it wasn't all day, every day. But I felt very low. As a woman you think you should still be making dinner and looking nice. You think, 'I can do a million and one things.' But you can't.

I was the funny one in my group; there was a lot pressure to be responsible for everyone's happiness. I didn't like watching other friends of mine be called the 'pretty one' or the 'smart one.' That had no depth, and it didn't match how I knew them.

It's war for 90 minutes in the Manchester Derby. You cannot give anything less than 100 percent concentration.

That was always special, playing Manchester United. I loved the feeling of the derby, that pressure, the atmosphere around it. And I did have some good matches there, didn't I?

When I was in Vojvodina, it is not possible to describe. If you play one bad ball, one little mistake, they are, 'Oh, what is that?' Then, some players, they are afraid to take responsibility. They don't feel well, you know; you don't have freedom to show yourself.

When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.

I understand that we're paid a lot of money and we're in the limelight. When things don't go well, there's deserved criticism.

I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

There's so much pressure for actresses to constantly work or constantly be desired in terms of a value.

Sequels are desperate.