Quotes About Pressure

I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfortable.

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

I'm drowning in papers.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

At a club like City, there are things in the papers and talk all the time. Ever since I've been a footballer, I have coped with that.

I think it helps to know where you're at. I don't want to be coming down 18 knowing I need to make par, and trying to force a birdie or doing something stupid.

The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.

Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.

I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.

I feel like a crazy person all the time, and I feel like people are watching me, and I feel paranoid.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

Every coach is paranoid.

I go to bed incredibly paranoid about the competition.

I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

If you look at top players - Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi - so many had a parent who was domineering to the point where you really had to question his sanity. It was nuts.

A lot of my friends in my student days complained about how their parents made them play an instrument when they were kids. I always felt compassion for them and didn't believe a parent could be so cruel, but when I check today, those complaining friends grew up to be quite successful, and many of them are now making their children play.

The really hard moment was when my dad said, 'Honey, if an agent is telling you to lose weight, then maybe you should lose weight.' I was 15, standing in our living room, having a moment I will never forget. I never had a parent tell me to lose weight, and it hurt.

There is, I think, far too much guilt generally in society around parenthood, about whether or not you breastfeed or whether or not you bottle feed. We know the evidence is very strong in favour of breastfeeding and the benefits of that, but it shouldn't mean we make people feel bad if they can't do that for some reason.

Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than 'Jeopardy!'

'Kitchen Wars' makes 'MasterChef' look like a walk in the park!

Fenway Park is a fun place to pitch in. You've got 38,000 fans all cheering against you. It's an intense atmosphere.

For me, arguably, the European Parliament is the best-functioning European institution. They are extremely good at law-making; they're extremely good at finding compromise under pressure.

A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.