Quotes About Pressure

Having the letters UFC behind my name is not the be-all, end-all it is for someone. Some people think once they get into the UFC, that's it.

When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

The expectation levels aren't as high because a team is expected to win on its home court. That takes a little of the pressure off us on the road.

Once you start going out putting expectation levels on yourself, you lose the concept of trying to win the game.

Playing for your country may seem like a massive thing, but you can build it into something it's not and put yourself under pressure from what the media say, but at the end of the day it's not life and death.

Away from football, life is not just football. People do not see it how life goes on for us off the field.

I had a chance to get used to the lights and the camera without all that pressure to... emote.

Big game, under the lights - these are the games you live for.

When you're in the limelight, you can't always lash out.

You get your time in the limelight but you don't know how long it's going to last. It's great, but you have to put up with a lot.

In training, you can push yourself to the limit and test yourself against the best players in the world. That is when the pressure is really on, and they are the moments when you either improve, or you don't.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be bubbly. That's what people expected from us. But that was very limiting.

I've hit in the middle of the lineup for a long time now, and my job is to produce.

The joke of being a showrunner is that people ask how you get it all done, and you don't. The list of things I don't get done in a given day is longer than the list of things I do. And one of the things that's first to go is watching dailies.

As any female executive with a family knows, you're making mental lists all through the night. You're often not sure you've managed to sleep at all.

In this league, you'll have a good week on defense and the next week get lit up.

We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.

A manager's job is really tough - you have so little time, but so much to do.

I don't know how to do a show not in front of a live audience.

Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out.

Playing for relegation and livelihoods and people's jobs - that's pressure. Being at the top of the table, we should be enjoying it.