Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

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

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

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

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

Pressure comes from fear. If you start thinking about the result or what might happen if you do something, that's the only time there's pressure.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

Auditioning is the worst.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

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

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

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.

Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.

I think people are always nervous for your first game.

I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.

The pressure was huge going into London, definitely.

I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.

I think when I start thinking about results, I stop playing the right way because I start getting too nervous.

For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves.

I don't like sitting on the bench because I get more nervous there than when I am playing!

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

I might be nervous off the court, being booed. But being on the court, it's my comfort zone. It's basketball. It's what I do. I'm not losing sleep over it.

When I begin shooting, I get nervous, as I am under pressure to do my job well.

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.