Quotes About Pressure

I have a lot of eyes on me because of basketball, a lot of young people looking up to me. It's made me grow up faster.

At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.

I was 49 kgs in 'Viva' and I was fat shamed everyday.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.

When you are defending your title at any point in your career, a loss can be fatal.

Second guesses in putting are fatal.

A coach's life is that, when you win, it is easy, and when you lose, you're no good; it's all your fault.

In Austria, everything is my fault when we lose. Whatever I do it's not enough.

I know what it means to play for a big club. Big clubs, it's like that: if you win, everything is good. If you lose, it's your fault, especially defenders and goalkeepers.

Being in front of the cameras is not my favorite thing to do. But it's a good problem to have.

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.

Winning is very addictive, that's why it's very hard when suddenly - boom - you are not the favorites any more.

If you've got the best record, you're going to be the favourite. So you've got to play as the favourite with a bullseye on your back.

In a match between Barca and Madrid, there are no favourites. It does not matter how they have been faring.

It is always pressure out there when you are favourite for the match.

When you go into a high-pressure game, and you've got a guy that's fearless, it helps you.

My fears are never about failure - it's about extreme success.

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

I don't feed off of the boos, I don't feed off anything like that... No one likes to get booed, no one likes to get cussed out, no one likes to get yelled at by 20,000 fans when you go places.

Obviously, it's disappointing when you put on a shirt and get negative feedback, but at the same time, it's what the fans want to see; they want to see you perform well.

I'm all for making ourselves look good - as long as we feel good, too. Feeling under pressure to look the same means we've gone too far.

Every filmmaker has a family to feed. They have children whose college fees need to be paid.