Quotes About Pressure

When you get into the playoffs, there become a lot of different storylines. But it's all about putting together a team that competes for a title.

I believe that every single game in the Playoffs, round 1 to Eastern Conference Finals, every single game is a different game.

I just want to go deep in the playoffs and be put in that situation where I'm locked in and the game and the season is on the line.

In the regular season you always say, 'Take it one game at a time.' But the playoffs, they kind of make you do that.

Playoffs are fun.

Especially when it comes to the Finals and playoffs, your team needs you mentally and physically.

There is just something about the playoffs and the atmosphere, and feeling like it's you against the world, that gets you going.

It's the NHL playoffs, I'm 20 years old, I'm finding it out the hard way that playoffs aren't easy.

Whatever you do during the regular season doesn't matter once you get to the playoffs.

I think the playoffs heighten everything, you're fighting the same opponent over and over again.

The first game of the playoffs is the worst. After that, you kind of settle down.

Once you get to the playoffs, anything can happen.

They pay me the big bucks to make the big plays.

The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.

I have seen a lot of top players being forced to retire in not very pleasant circumstances, and I don't want that happening to me.

You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

Between 2008 and 2010 I exhausted myself because I wanted to please everyone.

You can have so many different demands; trying to please the fans, pleasing the manager, please yourself.

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

I understand there is a lot of pressure on managers to get instant results, but English players know the league, and for them to be given the opportunity and the time as well, there is plenty of talent out there.

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. So pretty soon, you think you're a plumber, you think you're an electrician, you think you're an accountant.