Dale Earnhardt Jr. Quotes

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

I am very insecure because that's how I have played cricket. Since Under-14, I was told, 'If you don't perform, you will be dropped.' I have started living with this system.

My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.

I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

Any fight I feel pressure, just the same as the last one, the next one will be just as important.

At a track, it's different, there's pressure, things like this, so to be yourself is a bit different.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d'Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don't know what will happen. This pressure is inside you - you always have it.

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

With a good start, players can relax a bit more and aren't so anxious throughout the season.

The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.

I put pressure on myself and feel pressure from my fans to not only win but to look great doing it.

Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game… Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.

A bit of nervousness is essential as in a way it helps you deliver your best.

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

Everyone on the grid gets nervous before a Formula 1 race. It's just how you manage it. It's impossible not to be a bit nervous before a Formula 1 start or even before a World Series start. You have nerves. The thing is, you know how to control them.

I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.

I never played against my own age, and I was one of the best players. That's when I would get really nervous, maybe not sleep the night before a game.