Quotes About Pressure

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

I think really, if I were to defend the K-1 strikers, that it was a pressure of not enough time to re-prepare for a fight and not enough time to repair for a fight as a result of the last show.

You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.

There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

We know all along that time is squeezing us into a corner while we mentally rocket to each new star that flares across our sky, and yet we can't help ourselves.

The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.

I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.