Quotes About Pressure

It was my goal and dream to be selected to the Olympic team, so I knew going into it the amount of responsibility I was given.

I don't have all this money people think Olympic athletes have.

I've become Olympic champion six times and I've never taken a performance-enhancing drug in my life, but I was lucky in that I never even had the choice. I never had pressure and I never had a person come to me saying, 'You should do this.'

There's a lot of pressure being an Olympic athlete.

I came back from the Olympic Games, and straightaway, I'm this role model. So that means I can't mess around with my mates like I used to because, if I do, people are going to use it to knock me down.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance.

Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.

I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

Sometimes thinking about the Olympics makes me a little nervous.

Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.

The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

At the Olympics, for those eight minutes of each fight, all that attention was on me. Either the crowd is with you or against you.

I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I started so early, I had this daily training. It developed a focus. It became so natural that it was like a native language for me to play chess. That's why I didn't feel pressure.

I have always said the Olympics was a great grounding for me, to have that pressure on top of me, the whole nation watching you in my own country.

I don't think there's any less on the line in the Olympics than there is any other time.

I got to be calm, but I mean, it's the Olympics. Anybody wants to go out and do their best, so it's definitely a different kind of pressure.

The Olympics should be something so special, but I feel like it was definitely miserable at times.

It's very important for me to focus on myself, on the job I have to do on and off the track with the engineers without really thinking about what people expect of me off the track.

You have to be prepared for situations on and off the field, and everything that happens within the world of football. It's difficult for players at big clubs to deal with these things.

I've become more mature on and off the court, and I've learned how to deal with some of those big occasions much better.

In Germany, too many clubs are too scared of Bayern, both on and off the pitch.