Quotes About Pressure

Being a major-league baseball player is tough, so whenever you say 'face of the franchise,' I'm not trying to be that.

Whether it's a guy getting a big contract, getting a franchise deal, that comes with expectations.

Being the face of the franchise, everyone is watching you. You have to be able to lead other men. It's a lot of responsibility.

Coming from my past experiences, I've been the player who used to worry all the time, and I'd get so nervous and frantic when I was young.

In some ways, trying to win cups is more fraught than trying to win the league, as one really bad night and everything comes crashing down.

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

I don't just like to use punchlines anymore, especially in arenas. They freak me out. There is nothing worse than 15,000 people waiting for a punchline.

I don't really think of records beforehand. I don't want them to freak me out.

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

It's kind of tough as you're playing you kind of wonder what is going to happen to you as you go through arbitration or as you go through free agency.

Unluckily actors don't get much free time, they are demanded every time and everywhere.

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person.

If I am playing the game freely, and those opportunities come up to cross the line, then I get enjoy that a lot. But when I try to force things, I am not playing my best footy.

I could have gone the route of the Jonas Brothers. Those guys can't live their lives freely. They have to put out this image that's totally fake.

There's a lot of pressure to make products better. I don't feel freer.

I feel that I would perform really well if there was no camera in front of me. But when there is one, and the director says 'Action!' I freeze.

After I debuted, I was frequently asked why I get nervous so much.

It's not easy for a freshman, especially not at Duke.

Any kid in my position coming from being an All-American and all that wants to be the guy that makes all the plays coming into their freshman year.

I've been under the lights since my freshman year of high school.

There is a different sort of edge when you come up against England. Even when it's a friendly game you still get that fear in you that if you get beat it won't be good but if you win it will be the best thing going.

It's not always friendly outside the ropes at the Ryder Cup.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.