Jeremy Renner Quotes

I remember, playing in college especially, I cried in almost every game I played. I just felt so much stress and pressure that I was letting everyone down if I didn't score a goal or win the game. I carried that weight with me into every game.

I try not to focus too much on the expectations there are of me.

I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

You feel pressure when other people's expectations are higher than your own.

You always feel pressure to do your best, and when you know that the story revolves around you, it can become very overwhelming.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

If ever I am the underdog I seem to play well and whenever I am the favourite I put too much pressure on myself.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

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

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it's very hard to meet those expectations. That's been a big stress in my life.

There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

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 arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.

I can just remember what I have seen, and then I often think about how I do well throughout the match, and then, if I miss one chance, everyone talks about the miss. Only that.