Edwin Louis Cole Quotes

I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.

We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.

I like pressure.

Me, personally, I thrive under pressure.

Under pressure is something I thrive on.

Ups and downs will be happening; coming to the final and losing by a point or so should not matter.

I'm used to dealing with pressure.

If you're in big-time situations all the time - like for me, high school was big-time situations, college, big time situations - you adapt.

When I look back at my first few seasons in the NBA, we didn't dominate as a team. There were a lot of nights where we took a beating and got whacked across the head. But we got better along the way, and we started to taste the success. With that came the pressure and expectations to be successful.

When results go against you, that's when you really test how good you are as a team.

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

I like pressure. Pressure is good.

Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.

I think pressure's healthy, and very few can handle it.

I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that's fine. I think that comes with anything that's challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.