Quotes About Pressure

On rookie Alex Selivanov, Yes the guy can score you 40 goals. Yes I love it. What I don't want is him causing 60.

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

I know there are a lot of people who believe in me as a player and a person, and I don't want to let them down.

Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down.

I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.

Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don't mesh very well.

When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.