Add the durability that carried him through a life-threatening car crash in Italy and, more recently, emergency heart-surgery at a time of soaring pressure, and certainly it is understandable enough that so many always believed that his skirmish against Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs was the last obstacle to the England job.
There is one thing everyone can agree on: the last thing our nation needs right now is for thousands of doctors to down their scalpels and stethoscopes as the sickly National Health Service struggles for survival amid soaring pressures.
As global population soars, the pressure on farmers to produce more from less is getting ever greater.
The real reason, though, for his soaring blood pressure was the batter coming to the plate.
If the dollar weakens further and commodity prices continue to soar, that pressure will rise.
My wife's helpful tips ("I always wash up as I go along") do little to deflate my soaring blood pressure.
Brede Hangeland's eventual 116th-minute winner could make Blackpool nurses' jobs much trickier with soaring blood pressure from clients coming through the Bloomfield Road doors.
People with spinal injuries become ultra-sensitive to the sun, and sunburn can lead to autonomic dysreflexia - soaring blood pressure threatening a stroke.
But with global demand for sparkling wine soaring, putting pressure on limited supplies, the French authorities are opening what could be the largest wave of expansion of Champagne vineyards in nearly a century.
But how did he get so much work done, the stories, the novels, the nonfiction (not to mention the thousands of letters he wrote), amid all that wasteful boozing and boasting, the depressions, the freakish accidents, the bouts of soaring blood pressure, the stark-awake and Seconal-stoked nights?
With land values soaring and pressure from developers intensifying, Mr. Wood says he is able to keep this parcel intact only through a conservation easement, a legal mechanism that is an increasingly popular route families take both to protect land permanently and reduce their taxes.
