Mike Ditka Quotes

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

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

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.

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

As a woman, sometimes we stress on always being of the moment, and that is a lot of pressure, especially for young girls.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

I don't put myself under pressure.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

I was embarrassed this spring when corona came. Everything in life had been so fast and seemed so important and then I realised the kind of stress that I allowed myself to be under, and I was embarrassed.

I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.

Being a wrestler, it can get rough in terms of your mindset, just having that mentality embedded in you where you just wanna go, go, go, 100 miles per hour, always redlining your body and never actually taking the time out to let your body recover the right way. As I got older, I started to realized that less sometimes is more.

The thing is, you don't ever want to have pressure turn to stress.

I try not to feel pressure, because I feel like it kind of throws you off. I always try to focus on myself. But it does kind of creep into the back of my mind.

I think every person is different in coping with pressure; every person thinks differently. For me, sometimes it is difficult because people expect so much of me.

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

I think a lot of times with football players, we're just head down, grinding away, maybe not enjoying it as much as we should.

I can't worry about things that I can't control. That's the best approach, so I've been doing that.