At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

My job is to make sure we keep performing.

I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.

When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great.

With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else.

I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

Since I came here I've been treated awesome, in all aspects. I really enjoy playing here.

It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game.

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

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.

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

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.

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

The free world is really helping Lebanon restore its sovereignty. I imagine there is quite a bit of pressure on Syria to leave. I hope they leave in a peaceful way.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.