Missy Franklin Quotes

I just can't put the pressure on of winning a championship, winning a championship, because then I'd never be able to sleep.

My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.

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

I can't remember ever racing without any pressure.

Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.

Every match that I have, I always feel like I'm more nervous than the last one.

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

Any match you face, you know, you can be nervous.

I don't feel pressure going into games.

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

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

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.

It's a high-pressure situation to be in my position, but I've kind of gravitated toward those positions in sports. It's nothing that I worry too much about. I'm not going to act like I have the most stressful job in the world. This is pretty darn fun.

If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

Football is constant pressure, from day to day. You need to know how to live with that.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.

You grow up always thinking you'd be in pressure situations all the time, and that's why I put pressure on myself in practice, so when those situations come in the game I feel I can be successful.

I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

I used to get so stressed out before the fight, weeks out, because of how much weight I had to cut to get there.

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.