Sidney Crosby Quotes

Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.

I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

There is nothing to fear as much as fear.

Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

There's always doubt and fear. If you're a human being, everybody's got it.

I have a tendency to freak myself out.

For, like, 98 percent of my life, I'm not nervous. But as soon as I'm nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

Acting scares me.

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.