Competitive Pressure Quotes

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

The competition for World Cup places is massive, and you can't just rest on what you've done in the past or anything like that.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

I take issue with those who criticize 'The Biggest Loser' for pushing contestants too hard. The whole point is to push them hard. Otherwise, there's no change.

The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.

In the U.S., my whole life, I felt like I had to be the best and score more goals and run with more fitness so I could be the one in the limelight. I think that when I went to Sweden, I found the joy of being part of a team and contributing to everybody's success.

The only way you survive on all these services is if you're groundbreaking. There's pressure to be groundbreaking, which is the greatest thing that's ever happened. It's a bizarre aspect of what's happened with all of these subscription services is everyone is trying to outdo each other by doing great things.

It is difficult to take in how long you have been doing one thing when you compete at the highest level and always with the highest intensity.

The fear of losing makes you better because it stops you cruising.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

I didn't want to get caught up in the mind-set that, 'Wait a minute, I'm ahead of Magic. I better slow down.'

What supermarkets did to small neighbourhood shops is what digital platforms will do to cinema.

Winning is very addictive, that's why it's very hard when suddenly - boom - you are not the favorites any more.

Even when I went to Aston Villa, it was very important that I was not in competition with Manchester United.

You can't have mental breakdowns defensively because teams like Golden State and Cleveland will make you pay dearly.

As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.

Things in the industry get too competitive. In that pressure, you tend to lose yourself. So, it's important to have someone to turn to and vent out.

All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

The expectation at United is to win every game and you have to be at your very best in training, never mind in the games.

One of the scariest things to me was, I really feel like I'm a pretty even-keeled person with a good outlook and respect level, but in that environment, deep within the character, you see how easy it is to go to that place because you're one-upping each other and it's this heavy environment filled with young men trying to make an impression. It's dangerous. It's something that I became very conscious of afterwards.

Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret.

It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't imagine how hard it would be to be that guy's backup.