Quotes About Pressure

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.

The worst is when you bomb and when you bomb in front of someone you're trying to impress. That's the worst.

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

I think men under pressure - I mean, that's what brings out the worst and the best of us. I like to explore that quite a bit in my characters because I don't see a lot of it on the screen that moved me like the films that I grew up with - that are honest, at least, about honest emotions and honest heroism.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

The worst enemy of coaches is expectations.

Having a sold-out show takes a lot of the pressure off because I know that it's going to be a room full of people who are excited to be there. The worst part - or the part that I'm adjusting to - is the actual act of traveling. The hotels are pretty trash.

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.

When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.

The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the worst thing that could have happened to us.

People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at.

For a ballerina, the worst thing imaginable is big thighs.

Setting points targets is sometimes the worst thing you can do - it puts pressure on.

Hearing other celebrities moaning about the bad things about being famous - there is no worst thing. If you don't want to be famous, just stop it and go and be a doctor or a teacher.

Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.

Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

I've driven cars worth $6 million and now I'm not as nervous because I do it a lot, but I have to keep my wits about me because if I touch anything or scrape one rim, anything could go wrong.