Alastair Cook Quotes
You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.
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Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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'Glee Project' and 'Glee' have the same spirit, but they're both harder in their own ways. With 'Glee Project,' there's more pressure because you're being judged in everything you do. When you film 'Glee,' you go to the studio and have an off day, and it's OK - you're still going to be there; you take as many chances as you need.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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I don't put myself under pressure.
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Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
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Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.
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Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.
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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
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Living in Portland, which is a predominantly white city, the privilege and the luxury to be able to obsess over a certain kind of minutia, that I think, if you did not have that privilege, would never be bothersome. When people are worried about whether "local" means 100 miles, or 50 miles, or 10 miles from a grocery store, I just think, "Wow. What a privilege it is to have that as a major concern in your life." As opposed to, "Can we afford food tonight?" Sometimes I'm just shocked at what becomes concerning in these kind of communities.
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I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
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You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.
