Dealing with Pressure Quotes

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

On day is pressed on by another.

Fame looks like a really hairy affair. But if it's part of the job, I'll figure out a way to deal with it.

Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that.

The anxiety is, "Are they going to come?" and when you get there and it's full you say, "I'm good. I can stop freaking out." But when it's four days out and they're scrambling to find more radio shows and Good Morning Phoenix and all these weird shows, then that gets very tiring.

You know, some of the action stuff, I tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about it. Even when I direct and have a lot of pressure, it teaches me to laugh at stuff. I think that comes also from sports, from combat sports, where you've got to learn to laugh at it and take it in stride. Otherwise, you just can't deal with it.

I know what the intimidation level of high school is. You're on a hamster wheel, running, running, running, trying so hard to fit in. It's all about how you deal with what you're given, feeling OK with being the odd man out before you're finally successful.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

Of course there's going to be expectations when you're playing well in the national team. But you just have to deal with that.

If you have expectations as a club, then coping with criticism is part of your job.