Quotes About Pressure

It is vitally important for me to concentrate on myself, on the work that I have to do on the track and off it with the engineers, without really thinking about what people are expecting from me on the outside.

I feel like sometimes people see us as like robots and out there expecting to win every time. But, in reality, that's not how it is, and it's not that easy.

I'd much rather have that pressure than be at the end of the field and no one expecting you to win. That's the kind of pressure that you've got to enjoy and love.

Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.

I think bravery is to get on the ball and be bold enough and confident enough to try things when everyone is looking at you and the pressure is on and people are expecting you to win.

At the beginning of the first season, you don't have that pressure to perform at 100 per cent, because it's always hard when you first start. But now, in the second season, people are expecting big things from you, so you can't really disappoint them.

Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.

Everybody's expecting a lot from me.

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

It is always difficult, if you win against City, everybody expects it to be an easy win, but it will not be easy. It will be very difficult.

Everybody expects you to play well, and when you don't have the results, that's tough.

That's what happens when you play in L.A. Everybody expects you to do well.

Everyone expects a lot of things from El Clasico.

I had the best season, probably of my career, when I first arrived and then the second year I was still top scorer. I then went through a little stage of... when you have set that bar so high, then everybody expects it every week that goes by.

The fact I am the most expensive player is not a burden.

It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.

When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!

I have to study, study, and study because I have to learn everything. Everyone expects me to be an expert on everything.

When things go well, people like everything you do. When things don't go well, people look for 1,001 explanations, and they don't understand you're a human being.

The secret is I get very little sleep, and one day, I'll probably explode.

Every striker has to have that edge. When they are not scoring, or when the team is losing, they explode.

It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.

People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.