Quotes About Pressure

The pressure on the English national team has always been very big at all the big tournaments.

Tournaments are won on the last day, not the first.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

A tour to India is different from other tours. The expectations to win are very high from our own people, and defeats and poor performances are not forgotten easily.

We did three records in three years and I don't know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.

Once you get on to the racetrack on Sunday and you strap your helmet on and you come down especially toward the end of the race, it's every man for himself. It's me against the world. It's me against everybody else. Sometimes you're against your critics, as well, too.

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

I think that is when guys are at their best: when you put pressure and have something to work towards and have something to compare yourself to or try to best them, it really does make you better.

People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.

Being the only girl, I feel a lot of pressure. I try not to think about it, but I definitely get in the gym a lot more frequently towards awards season. The guys always look great. They're both great looking and wear a good suit and a great tie and some awesome shoes and they're good to go. I'm like, 'I don't know what to do!'

When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

People always want you to look pretty. I would like to live in the Midwest in a small town and never put makeup on. But they won't let you do that. Once I went through a period when I did do that, wore no makeup, wore my hair any which way, and people looked at me like I was a bum.

Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.

It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.

When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.

Education is a beautiful, liberating thing, but I think that tying in education and status, and the need to do well at every cost, is toxic.

There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less you show emotion, the more of a man you are.

Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.

The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.

Social media has been such a big platform for my success. But it can also be a toxic place.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

The gymnastics community is toxic. You just do what they say no matter what. It's really scary.

Young boys who are awkward or nervous or anxious, they find self-confidence in a way of looking at the world that is toxic.