I always feel pressure. If you don’t feel nervous, that means you don’t care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I’ve always said the day I’m not nervous playing is the day I quit.

Pressure makes diamonds; it also makes champions on the cricket field.

The pressure of fame is overwhelming. I just want to sing and write music.

When the pressure is on, the good players are the ones who step up.

The key to handling pressure is to embrace it.

The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you’re confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.

I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It’s helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.

Pressure is part of the game; it can motivate you.

The pressure can be a good thing.

I love the pressure.

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

You need to be mentally strong to handle the pressures of international cricket.

Pressure is what you feel when you don’t know what you’re doing.

You need confidence to play under pressure.

Once you have established the goals you want and the price you’re willing to pay, you can ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure and the temporary failures

I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

If in this world there is one misery having no relief, it is the pressure on the heart from the Incommunicable. And if another Sphinx should arise to propose another enigma to man–saying, what burden is that which only is insupportable by human fortitude? I should answer at once: It is the burden of the Incommunicable

By legitimizing Iran’s nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.

I suppose one thing that’s always fascinated me is that thing where you’re a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there’s that pressure to go out there and really toil

If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea

It is difficult to begin with Atletico, because there is pressure from the fans, because they are accustomed to a very good goalkeeper, but I have no fear of that. I play my game.

When I saw Iker play at the beginning, what most caught my attention is that a goalkeeper of 18 could stand the pressure of the Bernabeu. He had to be very strong.

We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn

Centre-backs with good technique can move the ball forward, even when under pressure.

We created some good chances when we were 1-0 up, maybe we dropped a little too deep and we didn’t get enough pressure on the ball, there’s a lot we could have done better.

I’m in my own fantasy team as well, so there’s quite a bit of pressure on it.

When you lift off, the pressure is supposed to be maximum. But actually, it was very benign. Very enjoyable. But as soon as the engines cut off and you get to zero gravity, you felt as if you were being pushed off your seat. You feel disoriented. You don’t feel aligned with anything. I felt for a few good hours that I was falling.

The ballpark is a sanctuary where fans come to escape the pressures of everyday life.

Having to play Test matches for a month and then switch to T20s in five days is not easy, but that’s the kind of challenge I love to face.

A society made up of individuals who were capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic.

Pressure is being brought to bear by the people in the streets, especially by the poor and by the young, so that movement leaders are always in a position of having to assess, very carefully, their tactics.”

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.

I want to see what people are like under pressure.

I think regular school is harder than my job. You have to deal with kids picking on you, and you wanting to look good and all this stuff. It was way too much pressure.

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.

Our modern coaching culture is not to put too much pressure on any one performance, to let an individual flourish over time.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

When you cook under pressure, you trade perfection.

I think pressure’s healthy, and very few can handle it.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

When I am doing music, I sometimes become over-compulsive to ‘always make some new music. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

Pressure makes diamonds.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

I want to win and I feel that pressure, but my career will not be a disaster if I do not win there. It is a dream to fulfill.

When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn’t go where you want it to go. It’s a lot of pressure.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

It was exciting, the pressure was on, not knowing how quick Lewis was going to get you, we managed to hang on at the end.

When you walk on the stage and five thousand people have paid good money to hear you, there’s definitely a sense that you can blow it. The possibilities for disgrace are enormous.

The record companies pressure me to force my songs because the stores want them to sell. I will not force my songs for them.

Pressure is a privilege; it means you’re in a position to succeed.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that’s written about you… Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

I’m not intimidated by lead roles. I’m better in them. I don’t feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That’s what I’m born to do.

For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give in to peer pressure.

I always had pressure on myself throughout my life. I put pressure on myself and not from other people.