Quotes about Pressure

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

The problem is, lifestyle demands can quickly lock in place the personal resource allocation process.

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

There is too much unhappiness in football, no?

Every player goes through streaks where they're just not making their shots. It may last two games, it may last ten games, and a lot of times, it's something off the court that is bothering you, or coach might cut your minutes for some unknown reason.