Quotes About Pressure

The National guys will tell you the same thing - I tend to work until the last possible minute.

When I compete, I love a huge crowd, expectation, pressure, and I like to have nerves: the butterflies flying and my hands shaking. This way, I am completely amped, focused, and ready; otherwise, I tend to be to relaxed, content, and don't perform at my maximal potential.

There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.

When you're making a film, you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and there is a tendency to always shoot from the hip.

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.

The world is so caught up in the 'American Idol' idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole thing is what everybody wants, but it doesn't help you make a better record.

In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.

When you're working in crisis situations, people have a tendency - particularly the media - to stake out your house.

As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher.

Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring out authoritarian tendencies in many bosses. To balance this, we now know a lot more about how we can successfully cope with a situation that is not likely to improve in the near future.

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.

Obviously, when you get into larger budgets, you have less of that freedom, and I just - I'm not a person that tends to make stories for those larger budgets. To me, it's not much fun to have that kind of pressure.

Guys that are playing in the last year of their contracts are playing for their livelihood and that tends to come off as selfish.

One of the best sayings in tennis and sport is that pressure is a privilege.

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

That's what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can't hide behind teammates.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

When I see these kids 6 years old with a private coach, and at 7, they have a fitness coach, I'm like, 'Aw, come on.' At 12, it's for sure they will lose all the interest in tennis because they do not interact with other kids.