Quotes About Pressure

As a captain you probably take it more personally when the team doesn't have as much success as you would like, which probably just makes me work harder.

As far as TV goes, of course there's pressure to look good. It's not something I've ever cared about too much.

You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.

When I was a kid, those were carefree days without much pressure.

I wish I could be more carefree. I grew up fast.

A lot of my life is just - a lot of my life I've just felt like a piece of meat. No one actually really cares, they only care if you're playing.

I have off days all the time too, but nobody really cares when I have an off day. People care when Kyrie does.

It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.

I guess when you're carrying a film, you feel the weight of that because you're there every day, and you feel the weight of your character that way.

The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.

Getting a casting means that a lot of people have put a lot of faith in you and your abilities, and you constantly think 'I hope I don't let them down.'

That's match play. You've got to get lucky. You've got to try to catch somebody on a down day when you have a down day.

There were many times when I could have gone down the path of being a child star, which I know can be bad; I think, especially in L.A., it's easy to get caught up in that life.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

I got caught up in the whole celebrity thing, lost control at times.

I had a heart issue, and a lot of it was caused by stress and anxiety. I know that my father had really high anxiety too.

I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it.

I think pressure is good. Just watching my brother and my dad be professional athletes, I think pressure has driven them and has caused them to excel more.

I feel the only way you feel the pressure is when you think it is an important match or series. If you feel that every time you go out into the middle the match is important then pressure ceases to exit.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.