Quotes About Pressure

There should be universal rules about this," she told her reflection. "When a woman is body slammed, she can only take so much without breaking under the pressure." Gathering a full head of steam, she frowned and jabbed her finger in the air. "Life should go easy on you then." That would be humane. Civil. "And if bad things have to happen, there should be warning signs so there's time to brace and prepare for them.

karoshi (death by overwork).

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

How sick I am of thinking about money all the time. It's like and hideous disease destroying energy...contentment...joy... (...) It's depressing how money is always at the beginning and end of things.

Sometimes the world around you makes you do things you would never do out of the circumstances.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.

Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your best work.

You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

The best way [to survive] the red carpet is by wearing Ugg boots. But unfortunately, I have not yet managed to persuade the people who style me at these times to let me do that.

Jimmy Demaret and I had the best sports psychologist in the world. His name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting for us after every round.

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam

When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.