Bojan Krkic Quotes

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.

In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

There's so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that's really hard for an 18 year old.

It's real easy to be in the WWE and let your passion or your pain or the schedule put you in a bad place.

To reach the biggest club in the world where there are millions of fans and a lot of pressure was a brutal change.

You lose weeks of sleep over a bad game, and a bad game could be one missed kick. So the ones you make, you just try to build on the confidence with it, and the ones you miss, you try to get it out of your head as quickly as possible and try to make the next one.

Emotions were never the most important thing when I was at school; it was all about academics and this constant performance of pretending that you're okay and getting on with life.

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

I've seen young guys break down in those situations. They're cruising along, playing great, then their minutes get funky and they fall apart. Some of them never recover.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

Reality shows can put a lot of stress on you.

As a goalkeeper, I'm well aware that any mistake can be magnified by the fans. But it's true that here at Manchester United, there's added pressure.

A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart.

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

In international cricket you have to thrive on the big stage, you have to deal with the media and the pressure.

It's tough being a teenager, man!

Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.

You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over.

Any fight I feel pressure, just the same as the last one, the next one will be just as important.

I would sit in class, and I would just cry. Like I don't even know why. It wasn't my school's fault. It wasn't anyone's fault. I just didn't like the environment. I totally had too much on my plate. At this point I wasn't even doing YouTube yet, mind you.

One of the best sayings in tennis and sport is that pressure is a privilege.