Quotes About Pressure

As someone whose profession relies heavily on physical activity, I definitely felt extra pressure to get back to my pre-baby shape.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

The IPL is a different ball game. Going there and playing in England against England is a different thing.

You can get reps up in the gym as much as you want, hours and hours, but when it comes to a game, there's so many different aspects going on, so many different things.

Just because you love to cook and you are good at in your home environment doesn't necessarily mean that you are cut out for competition. It is a different animal and requires you to approach cooking in a very different way.

Sometimes being an actor is kind of demanding in very different ways.

The Champions League is very difficult and you need to keep your concentration at all times.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

Success can be a very difficult thing to deal with.

It's such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we're not coping, because we're supposed to be all right with all the different roles we're born with and are piled on us later on.

I've had matches go 38 minutes. To be able to move for 38 minutes and have somebody's life in your hands is a difficult thing.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

I put pressure on myself to be the best and to carry on the Blanchard name with dignity and with pride.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

I think when it's a high-stress situation, my tennis definitely takes a big dip.

After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked with shooting 42 minutes, or whatever, in eight days. That's not a lot of time.

I'm in a Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, with Daniel Craig. I want it to be perfect.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head.

Obviously when you do start with a two-shot lead you feel like you should win, but a two-shot lead is nothing really. It can disappear really fast.