Intense Pressure Quotes

It is always tough, always difficult playing against Klopp's teams.

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

Everything Neymar does turns into news. If he gets emotional, they criticise. If he colours his hair, they criticise.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.

I suffer during games. We follow the action, kicking every ball, wondering if our centre-backs can stop the cross... In some ways, you enjoy it, but your heart is always thumping.

Bollywood is a tough place to be in and survival isn't easy.

Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.

Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.

Getting so much attention all at once, with so many people who want something from you or want to talk to you... for someone who is overly sensitive to other people's needs, that can be difficult.

Personally, I don't think IPL is very tough.

The pressure at Real Madrid is independent of the outcome of other teams and is always the highest.

For some reason, I can really tune in in the majors, and I have no idea why. They really get my attention.

Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do - it's just a hard life to live.

Even when I'm winning, hands-down the best, it's a struggle. I'm thinking, 'Oh, God! Just get me through this.' It's like surgery.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

'Twelve Angry Men' was done with an intermission, and I took that out. I really wanted an audience to feel like they had no break, just like those jurors, and you're not going to get out of that room until you come to a decision.

Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is in the interest of everybody to put an end to this conflict. But this kind of persuasion, this kind of intense pressure, I believe it's my duty to do, even if I recognize that the contradictions and the different perceptions of interest that exist are making it very difficult.

Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the most critical, particular, artistic person ever.

You always feel pressure to do your best, and when you know that the story revolves around you, it can become very overwhelming.