Quotes About Pressure

As a batter you are generally playing a mental game most of the time and having too long to prepare can work against you - you can almost fry yourself out before a Test match or feel slightly fatigued two games in because you have spent too long preparing.

I think if a batter's got the better of you naturally in the back of your mind you can go slightly defensive.

Being a plus-size actress, it is slim pickings, so anytime any role comes up for a plus-size actress, my agents are all over it, and they were like, 'You have to book this job. It's 'American Horror Story.' It's a big deal.' No pressure, right?

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.

When a big club takes the lead at home, then they cannot let it slip and be turned over.

People tell me I have to follow in the footsteps of my mom and grandfather, but it's a lot of pressure. I can't really slip up and mess up the name.

I never let myself forget that our rivals are waiting for us to slip up and feed their hope of catching us.

Yes, people can crack under pressure, but I think people can also let things slip out when they're comfortable.

I don't feel pressure. I do feel like if someone can see me slip up, you know, they would love it because it would complete the family craziness.

I think that Ronda and I had similar paths in MMA; she became a bigger star than I ever was, but a similar thing happened, where the backlash from the fans happened after you slip up once kind of makes you fall out of love with it.

The first to five, it's anyone's game. You only have to slip up in one leg, they get a break and then you're up against it.

Players have exams, banquets, awards, and holidays, so it's easy to slip up and lose focus.

A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.'

I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.

Nothing worse than walking out in a Test match and finding your hand slipping on the handle.

The frustrating part is knowing that you've done it before, knowing that you can play, but then your game starts going down the wrong path and you lose confidence. It's so easy to just start slipping away.

When you lose games against Slovakia and England, you're going to get the criticism that goes with it.

I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

I'm learning to work under pressure. Yesteryear songs are slow and demanding on the expressions.

With 'Girls,' Marnie was a slow burn; she shifted over time. With 'Get Out,' I was suddenly faced with the pressure that, like, I need an audience to know Rose deeply within 15 minutes, within a couple scenes. And that's not something I've ever done before.

When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.