Simone Biles Quotes

From a very young age people have been touting me as a world champion. So it can be tough, playing in the spotlight and people expecting big things from you all the time.

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.

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.

It's impossible, when one team and one player is afraid of something that might happen in a match, they will not play well, they will not have 100 per cent confidence.

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

I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

Auditioning is the worst.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves.

If I hear about a big match coming up, I'll get anxiety about it, and I'll start thinking about it, like, 'What's gonna happen? Is this my shot?'

I wanted to prove myself on the pitch, but I didn't have many chances, so it put a lot more pressure on every single game that I played. I found myself in situations where I was so keen to show my qualities, but many times it worked against me and I was punished for being too eager.

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 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.

Auditioning sucks!

It is always pressure out there when you are favourite for the match.

I don't like the pressure of TV.

It has gotten worse as I'm becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there's a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.