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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

I don't fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don't win... I am no use to anybody because I get low.

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.

'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.

Even when I'm winning, hands-down the best, it's a struggle. I'm thinking, 'Oh, God! Just get me through this.' It's like surgery.

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing.

I truly believe that players who tell you they don't feel the pressure of international cricket, of being away from home for months at a time, are lying to everyone and themselves.

I was struggling, and I was struggling mentally more than anything, and that will carry over to the games.

There is a lot of pressure on pop stars, and I think a lot of it is the pressure that we put on ourselves. In our minds, we build up these huge, huge standards that we think people want from us, and actually, when you break it down, people just want you to make music and perform to the best of your ability, but anxiety can stop you from doing that.

A lot of coaches and players get so tunnel-visioned that when they do have some time off, they spend it concentrating on the game.