Quotes About Pressure

I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

I love to play finals. I love to play on the big stadium.

You can sit and imagine what it is like to go into a hostile stadium, or what it's like to play for the AFC championship, but you never know until you do it.

Oh, it's always big when you play Rafa on a big stadium, night session, you play for your country.

No one likes it when the fans go against you, especially in your own stadium.

When I was managing Cream and the Bee Gees at the same time - when they were playing stadiums all over the world - it was very wearing.

When you are 17, you don't know what pressure is, because you play with the best team in big stadiums with big players. But when I look back now, it's difficult for a 17-year-old to get by and deal with the whole situation.

I play against big teams in big stadiums.

It doesn't bother me to play on the road except in the playoffs or in domed stadiums.

I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.

I play the best and have the most fun when the stage is brightest.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

How well a team executes its plans is important, but I think keeping nerves under pressure is far more important in the knockout stage.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

So many horses get stage fright when they enter the arena, and that's it - the performance is over.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

Stage fright is a real thing. It's debilitating to some people.

I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.

There's so much pressure to be at a certain level in your job and at a certain place in your life, but if everyone was doing things at the same time, then life would be so boring. Everyone reaches different stages at different times.