Quotes About Pressure

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

With a lot of success comes a lot of negativity.

We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.

With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.

You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.