Quotes About Pressure

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot.

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.

I've been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn't nervous and there's no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it's sunshine.

Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it!

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.

Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.