Quotes About Pressure

You're going to be the goat and you have to learn to accept it. When you're the hero, you're going to have to learn to deal with that too.

You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.

Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

If you win, you're heroes. But if you don't, then you're losers. That might sound harsh, but that's the way it is.

I used to say, 'Hey, man, what kind of a stupid question is that?' to a newspaperman asking me heavy things right after a race when I'm still in an emotional state. Now I at least try to answer.

Everybody wanted to make it. One guy makes it. In a family when one guy makes it... 'Hey ain't you going to help us out?'

People always ask us, 'Hey, is there going to be a 'Beerfest 2'?' I don't know if I have another beer joke in me.

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

You can't hide when you're on the top of the leaderboard. You can't hide my name.

Keeping wicket is the worst place to be when out of form. You can't hide at fine leg where you might touch the ball once every 10 overs. Behind the wicket you are involved every ball.

If you don't get tired or bored then there is something wrong with you - you are not human. People maybe don't realize that. Players try to hide it and try to be the perfect role model, but it is not always so easy.

I drive everybody crazy when I go into hiding to record... managers, the label, everybody!

If it looks like water off a ducks back, Im hiding it well. Its difficult, sometimes really difficult, especially with your family watching. But I cant worry about that. I do actually like the crowds, and playing to them.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

Well, I don't know one coach in the NBA who doesn't have high blood pressure.

My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, 'I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.'

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

People have high expectations of me, and I want to fulfil them.

Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

I think I live in the land of high expectations after playing at Connecticut.

There's people out there, Canadians out there, that have high expectations for me, but I mean, I'm still a kid, still trying to learn the game. I'm just trying to develop my skills as much as possible.