Per Mertesacker Quotes

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

There is an awful lot of pressure on me.

Sometimes I put too much pressure on my back.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

I feel the pressure.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

It's a great thing to have: that pressure everywhere you go, that responsibility. I think it's good to have it.

I feel like people expect a lot from me.

I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.