James S. Coleman Quotes

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

New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

Everyone in the Premier League feels pressure to get results. It is part of being a footballer.

The thing is, comparison and pressure have no boundaries. There will be comparison with your co-star, with the films that are releasing with your film.

The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

No matter how much you train, you can't replicate the stresses that the body takes when it's in a competitive environment.

I think it's bad in a way for junior players and college players to feel they must be number one.

When you play constantly for strong sides, then the pressure is always on you.

At Juve you were first or you were nothing. If we went out of the Champions League it was a tragedy. I saw team-mates who did not eat for a week.

I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.

It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

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.

The most pressure I've ever felt to be brilliant was in drama school - those were the toughest auditions. I really wanted to prove myself.

You put pressure on yourself to go out and do better. And when you try to do too much, and you're thinking about it too much, it can throw your game off.

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

Pressure makes me perform better.

I get nervous before every single game, but I think it's a good sign. It means I care and want it to go as well as it possibly can.

It's hard to continue to be great and have so much on your back, knowing that even a little mistake can mess you up for good.

One of the scariest things for any athlete, I think, is pretty much the off season.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.