Quotes About Pressure

I love that, 'mommy-shaming.' When I was a new mom, I was obsessed with how I was being perceived and trying to fit in as a mom, going to mommy-and-me classes and things like that, and never quite measuring up to 'the real moms,' the 'robot moms,' as I called them.

I think there is pressure when it comes to the perceived notion that if you are woman in sports you're there for your looks. You cannot try to look nice on TV and also know what you're talking about.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

I couldn't care less lots of times about getting scored on late in a game because it would affect my goals-against average or my save percentage.

In college we could take tough shots and your field goal percentage would go down.

The top teams in particular always have opponents who are highly motivated. If they drop a couple of percentage points, perhaps sub-consciously, then it's enough for the other team to capitalize.

A lot of what you get done in the NFL is by perception. They perceive you as really talented, and they worry about you. You've got to come out of the locker room with something.

I'm tired of seeing perfect people on TV.

Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!

Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

Chasing perfection can make you go mad.

I struggle with perfection.

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

Not really a perfectionist, but everybody around me is.

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

When I was a kid, I was very much a perfectionist, and I had a bunch of different compulsions.

I'm a worrier and a perfectionist, and live television is like the antithesis of that, so it's been an interesting sort of push-pull of what I forgive myself for and what I don't.

I'm such a perfectionist and I want to do everything right, kick every goal, do everything perfectly, but that is not reality.

Some drivers are like that. When they get a bit angry, they can perform better.

I'm at my best when I'm nervous, scared. I feel like I'm on the edge, that's when I perform better.