Quotes About Pressure

The point in tennis is to take the ball as early as possible and take time away from your opponent.

When you're leading 4-1, the opponent has nothing to lose.

You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.

You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier.

When you ask a guy, 'Are you gonna take a fight if your opponent doesn't make weight?' Is it really asking? Does he really have a choice? When you back them into a corner like that, is there really a choice to be made?

When you are a striker, you need to give a lot of effort for the team, to keep the opponent under pressure, to press them, to win the ball fast - that's what I try to do to help the team. After that, I try to make some goals.

You always have to put pressure on an opponent.

We must not dive into tackles but force the opponent to run so that maybe they will crack late in the game.

I've often said it's not just the level of your opponent: it's can you handle wearing the shirt and playing for England?

In a tiebreaker, you generally have a lot of adrenaline running through. It's all about just holding your serve, trying to hold two serves at a time, trying to stay ahead in the tiebreaker, constantly put pressure on my opponent.

If I can hit a couple shots early, the opponent guards me in a different way.

You normally can capitalize when your opponent makes mistakes, but at Talladega, you can't.

I'm putting constant pressure on my opponents and really dictating play.

You can't control games for 90 minutes; there will be moments where the opponents will show their quality.

I know all the opponents are behind me, so I should win every match, which is tough.

The higher we are, the more the focus will be on us and that means our opponents are going to try even harder against us.

I've been called a cheater by my fellow opponents. It's all joking, but when someone yells 'cheater' in front of 200 people, to me it's not going to go down very well.

I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'

Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days to do.

The best thing is to go into an opposing arena, and 15,000 people are focusing on you. That's the best feeling.

We are used to the whistles of the opposing fans, but when we are booed by our own fans, it's hard to live with.

At the highest level, you are playing the best from an opposing country, so the margin of error is very little.

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.