Yuji Horii Quotes

There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap.

You are always having to prove something in football whether you are flying or not.

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

I've always had a lot of pressure on myself, but I'm not going to lie, I feel a lot of pressure to give the fans everything they expect plus more.

When you are in the second position and you want to be champions, you are always under pressure.

My senior year was crazy. We were defending champions, we were on national TV just about every weekend, and we were winning. Teams always brought their best when they went up against us, and we always matched it.

The pressure is on the big teams.

It's normal that there's pressure at Real Madrid.

Fans are demanding. They want to win. They want it now. If you have an injury, they want you back the next day.

Once you are first in the East, one of the top teams in the league, you have a target on your back every night.

There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.

The pressure to win is always there, especially with the Brazilian team.

It's always pressure in sport. It was a lot of pressure since Day 1 in Orlando, and it's going to be always pressure, but I think those pressures make us better.

Playing for the Bulls, playing for big organizations, like Boston, you're going to be judged from Day One. It's part of it. You signed up for it.

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.

I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and, really, win absolutely every game. There is no game where people don't expect you to win. So, having played there for three years, pressure is nothing that would scare me.

Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.