Kurt Warner Quotes

It's okay to feel nervous before a competition because it means you care about doing well.

Under the lights, there's a lot of pressure, my first big show. The mental pressure drained me out a bit. I was fit and healthy, but I was thinking, 'Why am I tired?' There are so many things that go on in there.

Any fight I feel pressure, just the same as the last one, the next one will be just as important.

I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that's because I care for my skating very much. I take all my emotions with me. I can't go out and say 'Now, this is just my job.' I really care.

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

I will put pressure on myself to play good every game.

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

I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think.

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.

I've certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don't know if it's because there's so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition.

I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'