Pedro Martinez Quotes

I have refused to bend under the constant drumbeat and media attention.

There's a blessing that you're in a spotlight, but people follow you and want to keep asking you questions - it's just overwhelming sometimes.

I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the sun. It quite wrecks your life.

I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.

When I was finishing guys, the media was on me like crazy.

The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.

If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too.

I couldn't deal with the fame, the pressure and everything else.

In international cricket you have to thrive on the big stage, you have to deal with the media and the pressure.

It's a lot for young players to be expected to deal with all the media, and... there is a lot of pressure to be perfect, but at 19, 20, 21, 22, you're still young and learning.

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

I don't like the pressure of TV.

I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all this. Writers, tape recorders, microphones, cameras, questions and more questions. Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one. I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

Every day you are in the media for good or for bad and sometimes this is not helping the driver or the team to control the driver in the best way as well. But Ferrari is Ferrari and the biggest, most famous team in Formula One, so you have a lot more pressure there than at another team.

At a club like City, there are things in the papers and talk all the time. Ever since I've been a footballer, I have coped with that.