Quotes About Pressure

One time, I got to go play with lion cubs in Johannesburg. It was amazing. But it's difficult when you're on the road. We're always playing tennis, and there's a lot of pressure. So sometimes you don't get to do the things you'd like to do, because the priority is tennis.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

I obviously grew up on a court, but there wasn't any, 'All right, we're going to name him 'Tennis,' and he's going to be a professional.'

Tennis players shouldn't get married. It hurts your game.

I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

It's not only about a game and tennis, but it's more about the mental things sometimes.

I know it's just sport; it's just tennis.

It's tennis. I'm still human. I'm not a robot.

The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.

I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year.

A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels.

It's not as if I never used to get under pressure. That is nonsense. It's just that my looks gave an appearance, and people didn't think I was tense.

In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

The Edinburgh Fringe is a tough beast and you do whatever you can to get through it. But it's really the worst place to see comedians; everyone is so tense and nervous because it feels like Ofsted inspectors are out there.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.