Quotes About Pressure

I love it when you have to perform at a certain level or else. That's when I'm at my best.

I've always felt I perform best under the brightest lights and the biggest moments.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to perform their best whenever they are at work.

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or 12 million people. So that was a challenge.

When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do.

I hate every moment of live performance.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

I've always believed that I performed better under pressure.

I went on Ellen once, and even then, I was just a bad performer. It was nerve-racking at first playing in front of all her fans who really wanted to see her. Her fans are so young and accepting to new people, and it helped that they knew 'Marvin Gaye,' too.

Doing a show like 'Dancing On Ice,' if you are not a performer, it's a bizarre world to go into.

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the physical and mental health of the performer.

I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.

People expect that I'll be just perfect on ice, and that's not the case. I make mistakes, too. When I review my performance, sometimes I feel I did awful. That's the whole part of the process of what people see when I'm performing.

The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

So much of performing is a mind game.

I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.

I know, if I would have won 'X-Factor' and if I would have continued in that lane, I would have spiraled out of control. Performing on there was good, but it wasn't me. It was me compromising for the judges, just different people around.