Quotes About Pressure

The pressure of events was increasing, day by day, and he could feel responsibility wrapped like a strangling vine about his spinal cord, reaching eager fingers into the base of his skull.

When you're 1 out of 5 Asian people on TV, all the pressure is on you and you have to represent.

More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

If you see my stats, everyone is thinking that Bruno has to score in every game, Bruno has to assist in every game.

I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.

No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to.

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

These guys, just because we're NBA athletes, we're not superhumans.

I've seen a lot of athletic juggernauts throughout high school, college, even the NFL who can't play the game.

It's a 30-game season, and guys in college are big, strong, athletic and they're playing to show you what they can do to win every single game.

Usually, when I'm in the 3-5-2, it's at the end of the game, in the 80th minute, where I'm really just attacking.

I hate going into the audition room. I find it the most nerve-wracking, inhumane experience, and I think it's such an inhospitable environment to give an honest account of the character and, I guess, your ability.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

If you put pressure on your kids to book every audition, they won't enjoy it anymore, and they won't book it, either. Also, if they don't want to go to an audition, they shouldn't be forced to go. They have to want to do it.

You're always nervous about an audition.

Sometimes, you go into an audition, and sometimes you're just not on it completely 100 percent.

I hate auditions.

I put a lot of pressure to keep working. And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day. I'd rather go to the set and work.

I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

An Ashes series is huge for Australian cricketers - and English cricketers for that matter - and there's always that added pressure.

In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.

I have seen actresses avoiding food out of fear that beauty would be lost.

All games are huge, especially division games, and the ones at the end of the year matter the most.