Quotes About Pressure

Sometimes there's too much noise about what's happening, but this is Barcelona - it is a big club. Sometimes people make more of things than they have to. We need to try to close the team away from all that noise outside.

There's a lot of noise if we don't win everything, which also means that we're looked at as great players. We're under a lot of pressure.

The Apollo seats 3,600 people: I could hear them making a huge noise for Milton Jones and Lee Mack. If the audience doesn't make the same amount of noise for you, you feel like you've failed.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

Your life changes after the limelight is on you. Sometimes, it is easy to get caught up in the nonsense.

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.

I know that in Senegal, the fans and the media are demanding, and that is normal.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

There is a constant tug-of-war between the competitor within me wanting to win, win, win and the human in me wanting to live a normal life with my family away from the public glare.

In the NBA, you always have to make the right decisions. You should feel free to live a normal life, but you really can't.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

People have said to me, 'Oh, you are much nicer making documentaries than you were in politics.' So I should be. If you are making a documentary, you are having fun. You are not under any pressure, normally.

Normally I don't sleep much during a Test match.

Most of the time when you're open that's when it's tough to make shots because you try to get some different focus than normally when some guys try to contest your shots.

I'm normally a player that plays well under the TV lights, the cameras and everything, I normally do produce quite well.

It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.

Too often athletes think there's these norms that I have to fit into and there are people that I have to please.

We must engage with China to try and put as much pressure on North Korea as possible.

How can we pressure China on North Korea if China's one of the two largest holders of American debt?

First, the media blames us stars for not doing more films. But when we are shooting, you want us to take a break. Not fair!

When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.

Alia and Shaheen have a smart father and have got good genes. But it's not fair that people expect them to do as well as their father.

You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don't, suddenly from the fans it's, 'You're not good enough to play for our football club.'