Quotes About Pressure

The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let somebody down badly, then even if they tell you it's all right, it cannot be all right.

Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.

This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.

There was a point where I was just saying to myself, breathe. Inhale, because I felt really heavy - I felt like those cartoons when they experience G and your face is just sagging down.

It's always better for the players being injured to come back to a winning team; it takes pressure off their shoulders.

When you're younger, you have three or four bad results and you worry about everything. You worry about injuries, because they always seem to be your best players.

Fans are demanding. They want to win. They want it now. If you have an injury, they want you back the next day.

I understand being second-guessed and stuff when an injury happens - certainly I understand that - but that's football.

It's normal when you play in four competitions there are so many games, and because of this there is more risk of injury or tiredness.

Nothing is certain in a sportsperson's life. There can be an injury, performance can go down, others can do better than me.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

If you bowl well early in the innings, it is also important to finish well.

Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.

Sometimes actresses are just insane.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

I feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.

The 24-hour news cycle is kind of insatiable. Players in the '80s and '90s didn't have to deal with that scrutiny.

I was always quite anxious, but when I left uni and started to have serious relationships with men I became incredibly insecure about the fact that I was my parents' daughter.

All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

Despite what I do for a living, I am very insecure about my body.

When the band were really big and we had massive hits, I was always stressed-out and insecure. I thought I wanted the band to be really popular, but when that happened, there was so much pressure to keep it going.

I am very insecure because that's how I have played cricket. Since Under-14, I was told, 'If you don't perform, you will be dropped.' I have started living with this system.