Quotes About Pressure

Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

Beauty contests are only a mirage where all you have to do is look pretty all the time.

I think people have a misconception of athletes when they think about what goes through their heads, you know what I'm saying?

For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

Every writer you meet, at least in Hollywood, is miserable.

Being in the studio, for me, can be a miserable experience - I can really psych myself out.

A game director, in my mind, is somebody who makes everybody on the team miserable for the duration of the project.

Cool under pressure can be misinterpreted. I'm fired up, but in my mind, I'm calm. Here comes the next play, hurry up, let's go.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I know I have missed some chances, but that's part of being a striker, and I know it's part of being a striker that when you don't score, people talk about it.

I did gymnastics, I went to school, then I did homework. I missed out on a childhood.

When a striker misses a chance, people say he should have scored, but five minutes later, they don't talk about it anymore.

I've heard this stuff about a kicker 'losing his leg' ever since I was a rookie, and I can tell you that there is nothing to it. Every time a field goal kicker misses a few, the word gets around that he's lost his leg, meaning his kicking strength.

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

When I put my head in my hands after missing a chance, that annoys the coaches a little.

Guys are missing rewards and opportunities right now because they're feeling that pressure not to fail. And they're not learning about themselves because they're not failing - you're too busy patting yourself on the back to learn anything when stuff's going well.

If your body can take it, you can play forever if management wants you. But if you start missing field goals and losing games, then you are not long for the world.

When a goalkeeper makes a mistake, there is no one to save the goal.

It's hard to continue to be great and have so much on your back, knowing that even a little mistake can mess you up for good.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington.