Quotes About Pressure

People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.

When you are playing for a top club, when the pressure is on, when scrutiny is everywhere, you need some privacy. You need a place away from public view where people can be open, and, at times, difficult conversations need to be had.

All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.

Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

The pressure to perform is actually a privilege. Being left out of the starting rotation is a sign you must work harder.

Having pressure is a privilege.

I always respected Neil Armstrong highly. He was probably the coolest under pressure of anyone I ever had the privilege of flying with. I never saw him flustered.

Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

I've never looked at my job as pressure. It's always been fun, a privilege.

Life at the top may be privileged, but it is not simple.

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.

If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.

One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

That's why I enjoy Davis Cup, and I really enjoyed college tennis. It's very special. You want to go out there and compete your hardest, because you don't want to let anyone down. You want to absolutely give it your all for your team. And that's sort of the mentality I've taken to pro tennis.

When we play in the Pro Tour there's no crowds in, so you can concentrate better. The others play better as well, there's players who can't play too good on TV but on the floor when it's nice and quiet they can bang them in, let me tell you.

There's not a bunch of pressure at the Pro Bowl.

There's so much that goes into being a pro athlete that people have no idea about.

There is a pressure in this country that comes from being a boxer with an Olympic medal and then turning pro.