Mary Pierce Quotes

From a very young age people have been touting me as a world champion. So it can be tough, playing in the spotlight and people expecting big things from you all the time.

It's normal that there's pressure at Real Madrid.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

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

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

When you're playing for Real Madrid, even when you're playing well, you're under scrutiny.

I think if you play for Chelsea you have to deal with the pressure, everybody knows the expectations.

Obviously, making my debut at such a young age, people put a lot of pressure on you.

People want to be Lakers. There's just so much pressure, and some guys handle it and some guys can't.

I feel like it's harder because everyone knows I'm the three-time world champion - it's almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.

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

Reality shows can put a lot of stress on you.

That's what happens when you play in L.A. Everybody expects you to do well.

With high-profile jobs, comes pressure and competition.

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.

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.

It has gotten worse as I'm becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there's a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me.

One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

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.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.