Quotes About Pressure

Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.

Beat up 10 guys, win the girl, and yet you are supposed to be a normal human being. I don't mind doing that as a superhero but not as a real person!

It's very difficult in the Premier League to win three, four, five games in a row.

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

It is a big title to win, but in the Champions League, you don't need to have the consistency that you need in the league.

If you win games, at the top, there's no pressure to change. You change when you have to change. You change when you don't win anymore.

When you're in the second set and you start thinking I have to win this and get it over, the pressure to finish quickly can get to you.

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.

Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give?

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

You always get to stages where you need to hit something with one dart left in your hand. That determines all of us, whether we win or lose. Obviously it's all mental, how mentally strong you can be to deal with that pressure.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

My work means that a dressy outfit and full face of make-up is everyday wear, even in lockdown. But it's such a relief to take it all off after the show and know there's no prospect of having to find a second wind at the other end of the day, putting the armour back on again.

Wind depends on temperature. Temperature depends on pressure. And pressure depends on wind. It's an intricate mathematical tapestry that is far too intertwined to unpick by hand.

Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.

When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

Everybody thinks they can do my job better than me, they always feel you've got to throw caution to the wind and that's the way supporters are.

By turning our culture over to the spectacle of child stars and their growing pains, we simply wind up taking their childishness seriously and ensuring that they don't grow up at all. And neither do we.

I don't want to be like a flag in the wind one day like this and one day like the other, praying for a few points. Sometimes at this level we have to, sadly, work within this pressure in your day to day work, and that's quite normal.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.