Quotes About Pressure

There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.

Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

Coming from a large immigrant family, my parents didn't encourage a lot of 'play' when I was growing up. It was hard to get my Dad to even sit down to watch television with us (he'd watch it standing up, always ready to go do something more productive). Downtime was discouraged, as was any college degree that wasn't law, medicine or business.

If I were Goldberg or Brock Lesnar, I wouldn't want to have to go on after me and Randy. From their standpoint, I wouldn't want to be them and have to go on after us.

As a keeper, you have more time, and you do hear more from the stands.

The hardest people to play in front of are my brothers and friends from childhood, because I can never take them seriously. I know when they're sitting in the stands; it's constant jokes. They're just waiting on me to shoot an air ball or dribble the ball off my foot so they can laugh.

No one in high school wants to be put under the spotlight. You don't want to be that person who stands up for the other people because then the people who are going after those people are gonna come after you.

I make a dribble or a simple pass, knowing that if I lose the ball near the area, the opponent can score. I am aware of what I do on the pitch, but I always do it to help the team. That's why, occasionally ,I also boot the ball into the stands.

I am the man who stands on the stage spinning plates on the top of poles. Every now and then the PM gives me another plate and I have to keep that going as well.

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.