Quotes about Pressure

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.

Kitty, if only you knew how I sometimes boil under so many gibes and jeers. And I don't know how long I shall be able to stifle my rage. I shall just blow up one day. Still

Really, it's not easy being the badly brought-up center of attention of a family of nitpickers.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.

If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.

If they're going to foul me, I'm going to step to the line and make some free throws.

Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.