Quotes About Pressure

Hard times have been on Josh Barnett. Dealing with athletic commissions. Everybody's saying, 'You did this and you did that. You're the problem for this.' That's hard times. Hard times on my family. Hard times on my friends. Hard times on me.

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

A race without journalists also has one advantage for Max: he does not have to give so many interviews.

When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what you wear. People care so much about that these days.

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

In films, you will be judged by your last hit or, let's say, your last film.

The fact is, as all we strikers know, we tend to get judged just on the number of goals.

I don't mind being judged or pressure being put on myself.

You know, when men perform in combat, they're expected to perform well. That's part of being masculine. And when one of them doesn't perform well, that man alone has let the team down, and that man alone is judged for it.

Throughout a competitive career, you can certainly lose yourself trying to please the judges.

I've danced before, so I know how it feels to stand in front of judges and be critiqued.

I don't really change much; there's not much I can do about the judging in front of a home crowd.

Obviously, I do feel I'm scrutinised a bit too much and people are judging me. All I do is keep my head down and work, work, work.

No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing me to other artists.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

Why are we only considered successful if we can juggle family with a demanding career?

I don't think, 'Oh gosh, I won't be quite there and I won't be as successful as I want to be unless I'm juggling a couple of kids, a marriage and a career.'

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.

I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.

Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp's coming.

Junior and senior high school years were not a good time.