Quotes About Pressure

You see a lot of guys who are told they will be the number one contender if they win the fight in front of them. They have fought a couple of really tough guys to get there, but when the chance is presented to them, something happens in some shape or form, and they aren't able to take it. They end up losing. That was the biggest fear for me.

Bollywood is a tough place to be in and survival isn't easy.

It's tough being the one person on the hot seat.

It's tough enough handling the teen years in private without all the pressures of work and long hours on the set.

Sometimes when you are a professional footballer, you have to deal with tough decisions.

Tough decisions are never popular to make and even less popular to force upon the U.N.

People tell me all the time you have to be mentally tough to win the championship, and I feel like enough people hype it up to where you have to act different come playoff time. But I'm not a tough guy. So I don't know how to be tough. I don't know what I'm 'supposed' to be doing.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

It's a tough job being a politician.

Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.

I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it's tougher to be in your 20s because you're expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.

If it's a shot for me, if I can make a play, create for someone else, I'll do that. A lot of times you run a play, everybody's watching, everybody's locked in, everybody's pulling over, and it just makes the game tougher for me.

What makes me laugh is 'Masterchef,' with that ridiculous thing they always say, 'cooking doesn't get any tougher than this!.'

I think reality TV is a little tougher for me than I thought it would be.

Obviously I think offensively, spacing for me as a guy that puts a lot of pressure on the rim is going to make it harder on a defense. They're going to have to make tougher decisions, and space is going to be way more open for all the guards, too.

I put so much pressure on myself. I'm my toughest critic. I always push myself to go harder than I did last time.

The most pressure I've ever felt to be brilliant was in drama school - those were the toughest auditions. I really wanted to prove myself.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.