Perform Under Pressure Quotes

“Instead of someone else’s expectations, we’re driven by our own intention. Instead of being affected by someone else’s scrutiny, we have a clear sense of where we are right now, in this moment. And instead of someone else’s consequences, we are focused on our current priority. The mental recipe for internally driven people is intention, moment, priority, or IMP.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“On the back of her gratitude for the opportunity to talk and connect with her children, a powerful new insight presents itself. Although she can’t provide as much as some parents materially, there’s is no reason why she can’t develop their inner strength in a way that others will struggle to match. Dealing with pressure and having to think clearly in emotional situations have helped her today, both at work and at home, and passing this gift on to her children will help them face adversity too.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“To keep the strategy simple for the players, he’ll ask them to adopt a system of counter-attacking when they gain possession of the ball.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“Other people can impose expectations from without, but only we can set our intent from within.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“Being internally driven also feels different. Instead of feeling the weight of expectation coming down on us from the outside, we feel power flowing up from within. External pressure breaks us down, makes us shrink, and burdens us; internal drive builds us up, makes us grow, and energises us.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“Elite athletes often refer to their internal battle to overcome their doubts and anxieties – their dark side. Addressing this side of us will always be uncomfortable, but this is the only way of pushing beyond our current limits.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“Rico completes the whole process, silently saying to himself, ‘Trust.’ He enjoys doing the Intensity Clarity Execution routine because it is short, simple and structured, and it makes him feel light, bright and clear. He uses it three times a day leading into a match, which seems to settle his body and mind down, reducing doubt and overthinking.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“The quality of the parent–child interaction is more important than the circumstances in which a child grows up. People can be emotionally resilient despite a difficult early family life.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“If you restrict yourself to performing only in comfortable situations, your life will miss the fulfilment available to those who don’t restrict themselves. But if you embrace them, those challenging, high-pressure moments can be especially powerful and rewarding.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“Typically we try to avoid paying attention to mental and physical discomfort, which is the surest way to make sure they persist! Trying to deny them only gives them power. It feeds them through fear and gives them energy through emotion. Paying attention to tension in a different way – going towards it, feeling it, activating it, then releasing it – reverses this process. As the fear and emotion are felt, they naturally diminish and the tension dissolves.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“To identify our internal obstacles we can look for inconvenient facts, those uncomfortable truths about our performance that we don’t usually admit to. The word ‘inconvenient’ seems to strike the right chord – not too strong but not too weak. And calling them ‘facts’ means we can’t deny them.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe