Jason Giambi Quotes

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

Sometimes you can doubt your own abilities to do certain things. We get nervous, we get stuck, or we're not sure if we can live up to what we want to do.

I just don't want to fail, to be honest.

There is always that thing when you step up a level and you worry, am I going to be good enough? There's always doubt in my mind.

When you're not playing, you always question yourself.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

I lost my confidence.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

The movie industry is very competitive, and if you're like me and you suffer from your own insecurities about whether or not you're any good, that can be troubling.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

Competitiveness only comes with insecurity.

Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.