High Pressure Quotes

I am busier than a whore working two beds.

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

It's nice to say you have goals and that you want to win championships. But until you get thrown into the fire, you can't truly grasp what it takes to accomplish those goals.

I'm energized by this idea that's live television. In the same way as an athlete when they get on the field or on the court, you have to perform in that moment or it's past you and you've missed.

I've really just had to learn and adapt more than ever before, because there's so much to do in F1. There's so much to be on top of as a driver. It really requires perfection just to walk out of a weekend with a decent result.

As a player you want to be on the big stage.

I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it's the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake - ever.

I've been in crisis situations, I've been down, I've been hurt, I've been behind on the scorecards, and I've had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I've been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.

The first time you go out and perform at WrestleMania, it's a very challenging thing. It's the showcase of immortals, and you don't know what to expect, and every WrestleMania is different.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

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

Once it gets to two strikes, it's time to battle, put something in play, and try to get the job done.

If you are not 100 per cent, Virender Sehwag or Chris Cairns will destroy you.

The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!

College coaches, you know how they are - they want you to go 1,000 percent every second of the day.

But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when you need a strikeout there, in big spots. But we are very aware of that fact, that these guys put the ball in play.

Many books have been written about what the X-factor is, what separates people who win big matches versus those who struggle. Some of it's innate, but there's a piece of it that's learned, embracing those moments.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

Especially early on, I had no idea what I was going to be asked to do when I walked into a studio. I was doing 26 sessions a week - all day, all night.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

I like the feeling when you don't have much time and you have to think fast.

Durant, man! Has that killer instinct.