Quotes About Pressure

Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning's son, I felt like a target, and I've always known that whatever I'd do, people would hear about it. So I've had my guard up, and maybe that's molded my personality.

I find it scary when people talk about me as a future leader. It's like putting a big target on your back.

It's always a good situation to have the target be on you because that means you have been playing well.

Being at NDSU and winning national championships, everyone's gunning for you. You got a big target on your back, and we had to be ready to go week in and week out. I think playing for a program like that, everyone's going to give you their best shot, and we embrace that.

When you become the champion, you become a target.

For sure, I definitely feel like there's a target on my back.

I never had to worry about putting a target on somebody else's back. Usually, the target was on my back.

The problem is that people have an idea of what a footballer should look like, how they should behave, what they should talk about. If you act a little differently you become a target. There is pressure to conform. This is very dangerous.

Once you are first in the East, one of the top teams in the league, you have a target on your back every night.

I'm a target on and off the court. I've done some things I regret. But being a target is rough.

Sometimes I feel like the easiest target in sports.

Dad's very hard on me and is my biggest critic, so 10 is always going to be the target. He has said that my whole life. If you are averaging 10 goals as a midfielder, you are having a good season.

Theres going to be a big target on my back but I cant wait to rise to that challenge. Im not going to be hiding from anyone.

It is true that when you're defending a target, you tend to be more ruthless when you're defending a lower target than a 300-plus one because you have the comfort of runs in the latter case.

It is the women who get targeted because the society will point fingers at them.

Professional athletes, most of us came from the streets. We feel like we know the streets and can pretty much protect ourselves. But now we're in a position where we're being targeted, and the stakes are just too high.

My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it.

Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.

Anyone who comes to Paris Saint-Germain knows there will be a lot of pressure, and that comes with having big targets.

Every club has its scapegoats, but some are easier targets than others.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

I'm good at task management in a stressful environment.

I don't care who you are, the pressure is on to go to the next task immediately. What happened to the days of hanging out in the hammock all afternoon?

Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.