Quotes About Pressure

I think it's bad in a way for junior players and college players to feel they must be number one.

I feel maybe at times I've just been a bit too desperate to do well, almost tried too hard. But even though I haven't contributed as I would have liked, I've still enjoyed the cricket just as much.

I think you need to figure out your balance. 'Cause if you think too much about that there's people around and - and how you're singing and looking and performing, I think that it won't be a good performance. Then, on the other hand, you can't just be in your own world.

I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had my son, I was like, 'No, I can do all of it.'

It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.

Well, when I'm out running, people don't recognize me, which is great. I don't feel pressure; I'm not out to beat anybody or hit a certain time. I just do it for the enjoyment of it. I'm doing it for myself.

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Everyone's just looking at you. They're expecting you to win every game, and it's just not possible.

I have to justify my job every day.

Whether I lead or not, as a top order batsman I feel people expect a lot from me. I also expect that I do get runs and justify my place in the side as a top order batsman.

You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.

I look at Justin Bieber and my heart breaks for him, because I know what he's going to go through. He knows it. Everybody knows it.

It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.

When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win.

I'll keep fighting every day to put pressure on Senate leaders to do what's right for Kansas.

People keep comparing me to Virat Kohli.

If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too.

As a keeper, you have to understand that your job is black and white: you make a save, or you don't; you can be the hero - or the goat.

There's not a single keeper in the world that goes through a season without a little dip.

I'm not happy when I do let goals in... what keeper is?

Sometimes you can't help conceding as a keeper, but that's the whole reason you are there.

If I have a keeper who makes a mistake in consecutive games and is dropped, when he plays again, there is pressure on him because that is the level of the game we are at.

We have many good keepers in Germany, and that's why you can never let your form dip.

Iker Casillas is one of those keepers who always seems to be at his best in the really difficult games when he has hardly got anything to do but reacts when needed in those emergency situations.