Alan Shepard Quotes

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I'm not just sitting around anxious for the game.

You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.

The more prepared I am, the calmer I will be.

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

I know my body better. I know how to be more professional. I know how to get myself ready for the games, which is the most important thing.

I don't have enough time to actually prepare, to actually commit to being a beauty queen.

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

It is the little things that throw me - the wrong pen, the wrong font. An interview done standing up is a disaster. I need my knees to rest notes on.

I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.

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

I believe your best preparation is to just get your rest and just go out there and continue to do what you've been doing, not to try to do anything uncharacteristic that you haven't been doing. That's my main thing.

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

I think that is one thing I've picked up: follow a routine, be consistent, and everything is going to fall in place. If you are scrambling around, and you are late for stuff, that adds extra stress, and you have to go out there and hit a 97 mph fastball.

I don't pay any attention to records. I don't want pressure. I just want to get to that line.

I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

I'm afraid I'm a complete workaholic perfectionist.