Steph Houghton Quotes

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

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

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.

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

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.

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 am extremely nervous before anything. People who say they aren't nervous are telling a white lie. Nerves get you going, as you are playing for so much at the highest level.

Nerves can happen to even the best of us. It's not easy to compete.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

When I was younger I used to get really nervous before games, so much so, you are almost throwing up before games.

I think people are always nervous for your first game.

I don't know why, but I don't really get too nervous before games or practices or whatever.

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

I get too hyped before games.

I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

A bit of nervousness is essential as in a way it helps you deliver your best.

I've never felt as nervous as I did before a track meet - literally, stomach going crazy - 'cause it was just so difficult.

In the past, before games, I would near enough make myself ill. Nerves and stuff.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

I don't feel pressure going into games.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.