Quotes About Pressure

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.

Obviously, being a first baseman, you're kind of expected to hit some home runs. Obviously, that goes into your head; it gets into my head a little bit.

I was afraid if I started to hit home runs, my average would drop.

I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.

Before we started shooting 'Homecoming,' we were in the writer's room for 'Mr. Robot.' I was also editing Season 3 of 'Mr. Robot' while I was prepping for the 'Homecoming' shoot. So yeah, it's a lot of hats.

I was the best basketball player, the only thing good in my hometown so everybody did everything for me.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on.

I graduated with all honors, and I was about to take the LSATs, and I was working at a law firm, and I hated it.

Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

We all want to believe that our country's forces have, at all times and even under extreme pressure, acted with both humanity and honour.

It's a great honour to make a lot of histories, to be No.1 player in Japan but that never gives me the pressure.

I just need to concentrate on each event and accumulate a good score, and hopefully I won't flop in the 800 m. in Gotzis.

I don't feel as though I am under any pressure to return to Australia, given I won the PGA Championship, and I am just hoping everyone back home will understand my situation. I just want to make sure I am there for Ellie and that she has my support when she has our second child.

McDonald's is in a unique position. They can decide they don't want meat with hormones in it, and that will be the end of hormones in meat. I actually think exerting pressure on McDonald's is probably just as important as on the Department of Agriculture.

I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.

Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.

In Serbia, it is amazing pressure. When we lose a game, it is like somebody dies. It is really horrible.

The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing these awful books. And there's something sort of horrifying about it.

The most challenging part of playing Magenta was knowing that there have been so many great Magentas before me, including Patricia Quinn in the original 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'.

I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.

Drag Race,' you go back to your hotel, you come in and work, and then you do the challenge, blah blah.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.