Pressure Quotes - Page 7

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: “Don’t you feel pressure on you?” I said: “Want to know something, I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.”

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.

To take pressure off myself, I realize how fortunate I am to be playing a sport for a living. If I take that mentality onto the court, there shouldn't be any pressure because I'm already fortunate to do what I do.

I just didn't wanna put the pressure on myself to be in there [Def Jam South] to work as an artist and to have the hat as the executive with other projects.

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

I like pressure. I thrive on it.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.

Can I overcome pressure? Yes. This is always my first thought.

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

If you're going to let pressure stop you from fulfilling your dreams, you're robbing yourself.

I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.