Quotes About Pressure

I was completely anxious when I was young.

I'm not built to be famous, I'm not a star. I'm not special, so being stared at makes me very anxious.

My reality is feeling anxious before fan events or signings because I always feel like I'm the least favoured.

I'd like to give anyone else a go at being scrutinised. Daily. It's not easy.

No matter how angry people on the outside were when you don't perform well, a coach is 10 times what anyone else is feeling. Nothing digs at you more. But that's part of our business.

People often ask whether I consider myself successful. I don't yet, because there's so much more I want to accomplish. I put more pressure on myself than anyone else can.

I always think I put more pressure on myself than I feel from anywhere else.

When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.

Honestly, I feel like pressure is only applied when you feel pressure.

When I was approached to become national coach in 2020, I thought it was an honor and a challenge, but I was also aware of the pressure that would come upon me from the moment I was appointed.

My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him.

I have anxiety about coming into the arenas all the time.

I've done arenas, and sometimes it feels like you're the only one in the room.

I would argue there's not a lot of guys that has to do more than just catch the ball like me.

I am glad to put my feet up. My bones were weary today I felt frazzled when I had to juggle two things at once. My mouth barely functioned when I had to speak. Oh, how I longed for this moment to breathe deeply without the pressure to perform or please.

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun ' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

Starbucks was under attack, mostly from within.

To Coach Brantford, I could do almost nothing right. He told me that I didn't play tough enough, I didn't hit anybody and that my skating and passing needed a lot of work. If you came to a practice or a game, you'd have never known that I scored 25 goals & had 39 assists what with Coach Brantford always harping on me about something I was doing wrong.

Time seemed stationary, yet the painful pressure of time was constantly felt.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

The temperature must have been in the nineties, and there seemed to be far, far too much air in the room. It was bunched and crowded, and in your face and eyes, and it made you think the room was a rush-hour tube train, and a lot of extra air had managed to sneak in just as the doors were closing.

There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

one has control only until he's forced to exercise it.