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“This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.”

Use Fun Sports Normal Pressure Having Fun

Author:Chan Ho Park

“Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.”

Play Universe Sports Justice Moral Records Integrity Protect Pressure Competition Excellence Strive Severe Seriousness

Book:With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

Source: With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

“You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.”

Men Character Choices Sports Pressure Under Pressure

Author:Winston Churchill

“Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.”

People Mind Wells Sometimes Sports Loses Goes On Pressure Insane Fighter Boxing Bottles Make Out Skid Row

Author:Mike Tyson

“The news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting legal weapons really, they don't just gag the press, they gag them from mentioning the existence of the gag. Sport belongs in a news bulletin about as much as a mummified cat's head belongs in a Caesar salad. Combine the "mounting pressure" with the "growing cause" and you've got yourself a "media whirlwind" which you can also refer to.”

Trying Might Causes Sports Interesting Existence Growing Media Weapons News Cat Pressure Presses Environmental Reports Catastrophe Salad Whirlwind Gags Caesar Salad

Author:Charlie Brooker

“It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.”

Age Young Sports Hurt Deals Pressure Starting Compare League It Hurts Young Age Hurt Me

Author:Al Kaline

“We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.”

Sports Pressure Latin Counterparts

Author:Bobby Bonilla

“A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around”

People Thinking Sports My Family Pressure Spending Family And Friends Follow Me

Author:Bonnie Blair

“You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.”

Heart Energy Sports Race Taught My Heart Pressure Lays Relax

Author:Emerson Fittipaldi

“It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.”

People Knows Done Hands Sports Player Pressure Vices Coaches Vice Versa Good Coaches

Author:Guy Forget

“Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.”

Needs Sports Pressure Managers Pundits

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.”

Play Sports Loses Player Pressure Mad Tendencies Under Pressure

Author:Kevin Costner

“Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.”

World Real Matter Sports Fans Pressure Complexes Graves Obligation Relief Real World Irrational Seriousness Unworthy Unending Sports Fan

Author:Richard Gilman

“I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.”

Thinking World Should Kids Winning Force Sports Teach Share Losing Pressure Athlete Winning And Losing Professional Athlete

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“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.”

Ifs Sports Realizing Pressure Court Fortunate Mentality

Author:John Isner

“I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.”

Thinking Way Wells Hard Three Sports Results Deals Talking Written Achieve Training Pressure My Way Olympics Toil Three Times

Author:Vijender Singh

“Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.”

Thinking Children Two Play Shows School Film Hate Three Sports Middle Stage Son Depends Pressure Entertainment Performing Kicks Nerves Appearing School Plays Three Sons

Author:Piers Morgan

“There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and knees. Shoulders are another big thing. We play a physical sport and those are the areas that go.”

Play Bigs Sports Areas Pressure Legs Shoulders Knees Strain Big Things

Author:Gerad Adams

“The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.”

Sports Team Pressure Handle Carrie Teamwork

Author:Imran Khan

“One of the things about my sport that's important is consistency - being able to do your routines consistently and training consistently. If you change it up or try to make everything more intense because the Olympics is coming up, you tend to put too much pressure on your mind and your body.”

Ifs Trying Mind Important Body Able Sports Too Much Training Pressure Your Body Intense Consistently Olympics Consistency

Author:Jonathan Horton