Mike Phelan Quotes

Nerves can happen to even the best of us. It's not easy to compete.

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally.

I don't like expectations.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

I'm always looking to the next thing. There are always hurdles, whether it's the White House dinner or hosting charity events or that night's show: Until they're over, I worry, then I move right on to the next thing. It's hard for me to enjoy the moment. I'm just thinking about not failing.

I don't want to be in any rat race.

You feel pressure when other people's expectations are higher than your own.

Building up expectations, creating unrealistic time frames, feeling like our end goal is the end all, be all can all lead to frustration or anxiety. We end up feeling as though we have to power through what we want rather than enjoy the process and just let the result come as it may.

I just can't put the pressure on of winning a championship, winning a championship, because then I'd never be able to sleep.

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.

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.

Every record I do does a little better than the last, which in turn makes me more stressed out.

A lot of things happen in a difficult way inside Ferrari in terms of pressure.

The pressure is always there with Bayern, but we can cope with it.

I just don't worry about any moment. I just worry about kicking well.

There are some times where being on the shows are great. Sometimes it's hard, when it's just like, 'the show must go on,' and there's a TV show that's being done.

If people want to follow an illusion that you don't have to pay your way, you don't have to measure up, then there are serious consequences for any country.

You always need time to adapt to a new manager. But in football if you don't get a result, you are under pressure.

There's always pressure on people's shoulders when it comes to Man United, and it's how you deal with the pressure.