Mats Wilander Quotes

I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

I'll never be the best guitar player.

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away.

Oh, you wouldn't want to hear me sing.

I think I'm good enough to play and sing.

Everybody has an ego, and they don't like their athletic ability to be questioned.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I've always been a mediocre student, so I never won an award in school. I'm not very athletic, so I've never won a sports award. So, I'm a mediocre person.

I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't do much else to be honest.

Now I have normal-person fears - fears of failure, of not being smart enough or strong enough or kind enough.

Thank God I'm a horrible musician. Good singer, horrible musician.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind of a bit of a musician, but I've often doubted my musical ear. If someone sings me a melody, I have to improvise on that melody, because I can't retain the information they've given me. That's why I still practise today, I suppose, because I still feel inadequate.

I'm much more confident performing than I am in social situations.