Pressure Quotes

When Messi plays the ball, everybody expects many things from him. Sometimes it's too much because we have to let Messi breathe a bit.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

No pressure, no diamonds.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

The main thing is the ‘rule of corruption’: helping the horse both to race and also to get a mouthful of hay. It’s what all civil servants are secretly thinking. Our expectations for our civil servants are far too high, far too grandiose. The pressure is more than their flesh-and-blood bodies can stand.

When I try to be perfect, it makes me not have fun.

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

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.

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

You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know." Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn't!