Quotes About Pressure

The reason why those female celebrities are always in filthy moods is not because they're being hounded by men with massive cameras or because Ridley Scott cancelled their film. They just want to get their hands on a cheeseburger.

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

For me, I do better in Grand Slams. I like when there's more people watching.

If you haven't really raced a lot in lower categories, and you make the jump to Formula One, you have to learn in Formula One, and a lot more people are watching.

The more you achieve, the more people want.

More than anything else, being famous just didn't agree with me.

Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments.

There's a massive difference between playing Under-21 football and being on the bench at Chelsea, and playing every week in a league where you are playing for people's livelihoods and helping to pay their mortgages.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

I'm mortified when I see 20-year-old girls changing the shapes of their faces or plumping their lips out or their cheeks.

You know what the most amazing luxury problem in the world is? When you've got a bunch of hits you have to play. That means the show's going to have to be a little longer.

I thought, 'Write a hit, you'll be rich and happy.' Meet one of the most beautiful girls in the world, one of the most talented and I'll be happy. All of that: I'm not happy.

The most difficult thing with a new shot is if you go two or three games without making it, or you struggle, and people start saying, 'You can't shoot 3s,' or, 'Why do you shoot 3s?'

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have to do this.'

'Workin' Moms,' obviously, is about mothers who also work. But we're also expected to remain graceful when we return to work, and that's just impossible.

We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but also of mothers who don't need to work and still fail to fulfill an impossible ideal of selfless motherhood. You don't have to look very hard to see the common denominator.

Like all working mothers, I have guilt. Because I have to leave for work, I feel guilty about leaving for anything else.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

I just think I play better in the greater scenarios. I just get motivated. I like the big crowds on the centre courts.

That is one of the problems big teams face - their rivals always take the field very motivated, and I say this from experience.