Quotes About Pressure

I don't feel much pressure at all. I have great family support, and they take a lot of pressure off me. They help to control media and public interest.

Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.

Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.

The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

There are mums in the kitchen at amazing pubs and that can work - it's just as tough but the pressure is different, the hours are different. Anais was nine months old when she started in nursery so I could go back to the kitchen full-time.

There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.

A Home Run Derby is fun. It's just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, there's a little more pressure when they pull that cage back, but if you practice properly, it shouldn't affect the second half of your season at all.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

Because I've got an AFI award, I feel there is a certain expectation when I walk into a room, you know, that 'That Deb Mailman must know something!' But I'm just as nervous with every experience. I still doubt whether or not I can pull something off. I still think, 'When is the review going to come along that says Deb Mailman's not very good?'

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

It's hard to play with any kind of confidence when you feel like if you miss one shot, if you make one mistake, you're getting pulled.

Mum had pumped me so full of anger, I couldn't throw it off.

That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way.

When you're under pressure and your heart's pumping, you almost go back to what you know.

With a runner at second base with nobody out, you're trying to punch somebody out. You understand when there are guys in scoring position; hitters like to be aggressive early.

My entire career, everybody says I need to punch somebody.

I think of all my iron shots as punches - not punch shots, but how much pressure I'm applying to the hit.

There were players who could leave the result at Anfield, but me? No chance. I got involved in the running of two restaurants in Liverpool to take my mind off football but, before the opening night of each one, I'd played badly. It meant I couldn't enjoy the party. It felt like I had to punish myself.