Willie Cauley-Stein Quotes

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.

When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build.

The thing I've always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there's so much importance on every play.

Every game is critical.

Once you start feeling the pressure, you start to struggle. That is the beauty of Indo-Pak cricket contests.

Relegation - that's pressure.

Before normal games I was always relaxed. But at the World Cup for Italy my heartbeat was always going a lot quicker.

Whenever you go up 2-0, you understand that teams are going to be desperate.

Every game's a big game.

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.

It's the playoffs, man. If you don't get excited about the playoffs, you don't even deserve to be playing basketball.

Every game against Australia matters.

Going to the Combine, I had a lot of eyes on me, high praise on me, so I had to perform well at the Combine, or everything would have just went downhill.

Players are under such pressure in crucial moments, especially at the highest level with what is on the line.

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.

There is always pressure in all matches in the World Cup. This is when you must go beyond your capacity as a competitor.

The playoffs are tough. It's a different game.

Once you reach the knockout stage of a World Cup, the team that holds its nerves wins.

In knockout football, it's one bad game and you're out.