Quotes About Pressure

Every time I think I'd want a huge, huge career, I realize I'd go crazy under that kind of scrutiny.

UCLA will always be involved with great players, and those players always draw scrutiny. That's just the way it is.

There is always scrutiny and pressure from the media. I am always told that I have to win.

Playing in attack is difficult. You are under scrutiny, and you have to be able to deal with that.

The deep sea is a scary world.

There are certain times during the season when the game is a job.

Give me one coach in any sport that's not always on the hot seat. You're just as good as your last game... You're always on a hot seat.

When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest.

I'm trying to provide entertainment, and I hope that people can realize that it takes more than just me playing a shot in 30 seconds or 40 seconds for us to call it slow play.

My whole philosophy is 24 seconds or less. I don't care if it's seven or 10 or 20, we just have to get one good shot in those 24 seconds and that's what we'll do.

I'm not the guy who's been in the huddle with 1.7 seconds left to go.

There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.

Of course El Clasico is a great night, but I don't have an overwhelming desire to play in that game.

It's just so overwhelming to think, 'OK, the whole world is watching this!'

We try to live as normal a life as we can, but it can be overwhelming at times.

When you look out at somewhere like Hammersmith Apollo and all those people have come just to see you on that night, it's overwhelming. You can't rest on your laurels. This tour's got to be better than the last one because I want people to come to the next one.

At some times, my first go-round in the Olympics got a little overwhelming.

While winning may not always personify the Big Apple, attitude certainly does. Players get called to the carpet. So do coaches, managers, executives, owners, and anyone associated with them. No one is safe.

The way that I am, most of my time as a manager has been putting fires out and I don't enjoy dealing with chairmen and owners but I know it's part of my job.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

I place a lot of value on pace of the game, going after people... always be the aggressor and forcing the issue a little bit when we have the ball, and when we don't have it, we want to come at you, too.

A lot of times in television, it's incredibly rushed, and you're just trying to get the pace.