Quotes About Pressure

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

I'm constantly anxious about making mistakes.

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.

TV is a cruel mistress; you can't afford to fail in any way.

Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game... Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.

All I get on my Twitter is 'Please fight Groves again' and 'Why won't Froch take the fight?' and 'Get in the mix... ' But it's just so hard to do that. I wish it were easy.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level.

I agree that an actor's shelf life is so less, so they want it to move faster. But in that fast forward mode, you don't want to make wrong choices.

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

I got sick of modeling and I was afraid of getting overexposed.

The world of modeling can be hard; just as cruel as it is glamorous.

I'm a size 4. In modeling, that's often too big.

Relationships with a modeling career is super difficult.

Modelling killed me.

I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

With modelling, there's nothing to work on other than losing weight. I definitely had an eating disorder.

I was 18 years old and a size 10 when I started modelling, but I was told to lose weight right away.

Look and image were very important - there was already incredible pressure to look feminine and sexy but I wanted to look individual and strong. I didn't have any role models except Little Nell from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'

We are constantly consuming entertainment; we treat celebrities like role models and royalty. Sometimes destructive behavior gets ignored, or sometimes the pressure breaks them.