Kurt Busch Quotes

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.

With big clubs, it's always very demanding.

The kind of work I do, there's usually a lot of money on the line; there are jobs on the line. It's not a world that lends itself to everyone being friendly all the time. We're certainly not sitting around holding hands singing 'Kumbaya.'

When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.

Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.

Making a movie is like you're behind the wheel, and you're driving through the obstacle course, and the pedal is down, and you can't brake.

Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.

The margin for error in the Champions League is tiny.

To reach the biggest club in the world where there are millions of fans and a lot of pressure was a brutal change.

In the Premier League, you don't have one second to breathe - you have to be on it from the first minute. If you lose focus - just for a few seconds - the game will pass you by. It's 100 miles an hour.

I think the nature of the game can be very unforgiving and of course, the longer you are out of the game - this is a very fast evolving game and particularly with the media we have.

You know in a playoff atmosphere anything can happen.

The Championship is a ferocious league, physically demanding, and it simply does not allow players the luxury of cruising through.

The league is crazy. It's hard to win in this league, and you have teams coming at you every week with players just as good as you.

Once I turned pro, I was like okay, this is not fun and games now.

Throw me to the wolves. I learn faster when I'm around wolves and sharks.

In this league, you can't take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too good, too talented.

When you come to a club like Hibs not everyone can handle it, there's pressure in every single game to get results.

When the money gets bigger and the stakes get higher, the sea gets wider, and the sharks in the water grow sharper teeth.

At the highest level, you are playing the best from an opposing country, so the margin of error is very little.