Quotes About Pressure

Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.

I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you've lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose.

Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.

There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.

You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis.

When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

Myself, and all coaches, need to have courage, because we are so exposed. When we win, we're the best. When we lose, we're stupid. We must find a middle ground.

I think a lot of gay kids in the midwest or in places not in New York have to overachieve in order to sort of get through the fear of what they're going through.

The first time I fought Mike Chandler, I was thinking about money way too much. I was thinking about the end of my contract. My focus was way off. I didn't believe in the people that were guiding me.

When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, 'The Art of Captaincy.' I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don't make you good captains.

Since I was 16 years old entering professional league, all the eyes were on me. And in Milan you have to win... every game.

Playing in Milan is never easy because the San Siro always commands great performances.

It is a great honour for me to be the Milan coach. It's a lot of pressure and responsibility too, but I like that.

I hope 'Tum Mile' works in the same way as 'Jannat' or else I will be blamed if it does not do well.

Since my international debut in 2014 the miles on the clock have probably crept up and Test cricket is the level where the pressure and scrutiny are greatest.

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that.

I always imagined myself going up against Reggie Miller, Michael Jordan, guys like that, and I had to make the shot to win the game.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

It's hard work to think away all those 200 people or 40 people, whatever the crew is, that are around behind the camera. To also think about, 'Whatever I'm doing now is going to be seen by a million people,' it doesn't really help my performance.