Nik Wallenda Quotes

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

The worst thing in the world is telling yourself you can't do something.

If you tell yourself you can't, you're right.

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

If you say you can or if you say you can't... you're right.

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

If you go out there with doubts or unsure what's going to happen, it's not going to go your way.

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

He thinks it's his day, and when you think it's your day, it usually is.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

You should never doubt yourself because you never, ever know what's around the corner.

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

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.