Quotes About Pressure

There's a lot of pressure that comes from the mainstream stuff, and already people who have been saying - people who don't know any better - have been saying things to me like, 'You should really think about neosoul. You'd definitely be more successful in that.' But that's not my expression.

People I love and trust advise me to just drop off the face of the Earth for an extended period of time, and maybe that will calm or cool things down. But my work is very public work.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.

I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.

Even when I play in World Cups, I don't look at things like that. It's something that I want to be doing, so why would I put extra pressure on myself? I'm just going to go out there and enjoy it.

After the first couple of games I hadn't scored and you start putting an extra bit of pressure on yourself, and the longer that goes I think it becomes more difficult.

I actually think I play better with pressure, that extra pressure when the team needs something more and things like that.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

As a team, you always need to show something extra in the Champions League.

I always experience each game the same way, but the Clasico has something extra because you can't play one every day.

I should not think that I have to win every match and what others will think; that will create extra pressure. I just have to give best on court.

You can feel a bit of extra pressure bowling at your own ground.

It is a proud moment to lead England out any time you do and on a world stage it gives it an extra oomph as well but it will be down there with the biggest lows if we don't win.

I have to keep performing well for club and country. That's what I always want to do. If I do that, then that extra media attention comes towards me.

As a teenager you've got a lot of stuff going on all the time. It's hard to find a couple extra hours of sleep.

I've already got 10,000 more eyes on me because I am of color and they're going to see what I can do in the top series. That's enough pressure in itself, so I don't need to add extra pressure.

There is a lot of pressure because of what my father achieved and everyone is expecting so much, but that gives me that extra drive in the gym every day to graft hard.

Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

In one-day cricket, two-three overs can make a difference, if you concede extra runs or cannot score enough in that period.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

We live in a time of extremes. People think that, on a scale of 1-10, if they're not at a 10 for happy, they're not happy.

Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.