Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Quotes

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I worry too much.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

I stress out a lot. Being a perfectionist doesn't help with that!

Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.

Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

I really wish I worried less.

If you start giving too much importance to pressure, you won't be in the present.

If you think too far ahead, then it'll just stress you out.

I do not work well when I am in living in a cyclone of panic. I reject actively seeking out destabilization and suffering as a creative model.

Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.