Quotes About Pressure

I think it's always difficult to go against people with big match experience in finals.

It's huge just to get a game in the NBA Finals.

And for me, you get the best out of yourself when the pressure is on. You want to play in cup finals and important games, those important games are the pressure games, because you have to win them.

All finals are tough.

I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn't.

I thought it'd be different. Kind of like, a lot of weight lifted off of my shoulders, as I don't have to worry about finances for the rest of my life, or my family's. But it wasn't like that. It was more - there's things I need to get done.

I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.

I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.

People point fingers at the leader. That happens in every sport.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

When I was finishing guys, the media was on me like crazy.

I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do it, and my only goal was really not to get fired off of it.

When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.

You coach long enough, you're gonna get fired.

Some coaches get fired even after the best years they've ever had.

My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.

At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.

'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.

I hadn't seen any people like me on TV before, and I definitely didn't want to be the first one. I didn't want that responsibility on my head.