Quotes About Pressure

When you're in the NBA, you think about playing time, how to make your coach happy or if you're winning. It really just took my focus off some of the most important things.

There are always games where you play for important things, but the semifinal of the Champions League is a responsibility.

I really feel that if you impose your will on somebody, eventually they'll break.

The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don't think that's fair.

Pressure is not imposed on me by the club, I impose it on myself.

I'm always impressed by how fighters can compartmentalize their lives before big fights.

I always had the impression England never came to competitions with freedom of mind. They are so afraid of mistakes.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

Literally, if you weren't the best in the world in my family, it wasn't impressive.

I try not to worry about what people think and what people think I should do each fight, how impressive I need to be. I need to go out there and win; that's what it comes down to.

At Valencia I was playing a high level every week and I improved a lot. I was under pressure in a good way, I played in a team which played very good football with an explosive counter attack.

I've learned how to deal with pressure more. I'm still trying to achieve more in my game and add more to it. I feel like I'm still learning every day, and I want to keep on improving.

I don't feel the same pressure to be perfect up there that I did in the beginning.

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.

We rushed to finish the album when 'Mad World' became a hit. The pressure was on and it stopped being as enjoyable as it had been; in the end, it wasn't enjoyable at all.

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

I think anxiety is the nature of most environments today, and people feel inadequate when they are not able to cope with it.

The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches.

I fear drama more than films. The amount of work and exhaustion are incomparable.

More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.

I chose to leave my wife at the hospital after prematurely birthing our first baby due to incompetent cervix, which resulted in a fatality, to play in a football game. I felt like I had to prove to my coaches and new team that I was dedicated to winning and I wouldn't let anything keep me from that goal, not even my family.

When you're in the process of becoming an actor, you think that you just need to get that one film. But once you get that one film, the stress increases.

The more you play, the more people's expectation increases.

If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.