Kevin Owens Quotes

With what we were doing in ECW, the first thing you had to overcome was the fear of getting hurt.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

I perform better under pressure. If I go out there, and I'm not nervous, and I'm too relaxed, I don't like that vibe. I like big matches. I like pressure situations.

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

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

The best thing is to go into an opposing arena, and 15,000 people are focusing on you. That's the best feeling.

That is why I can never walk away from wrestling because there's this moment - the bell rings and everything slips away. The path, the future. There's nothing but that moment right in front of you where the intensity is high, the risk and reward are high, and you have to enter into a mental state that doesn't allow for hesitation.

I have the game for the pressure matches and now I just have to be consistent.

I've played basketball, and I've stood at the free-throw line with a tie game and 0.2 seconds left. But there is no feeling in the world like being in that ring when they close it up and ask, 'Are you ready?'

If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

When you go out there, and you're in the ring, honestly, half the time you forget what city you're even in because you're so focused on what you're doing and the task at hand.

We all sign up where you might get hurt. That's what makes this league a little bit different than any other in professional sports.

I competed at 'WrestleMania 33,' and I'm telling you, leading up to what should have been the biggest moment of my life, I couldn't find an ounce of joy.

I think gymnastics can be a really brutal sport. I don't think it's supposed to be a brutal sport.

People talk about pressure in football, but I don't think pressure should always affect you in a bad way. I love games under pressure.

When you play a semi-final, it is impossible to be tired. You know how much is at stake.

I've always thrived under the pressure of the big games. I enjoy that, and there's nothing I get afraid about.

Being in a Grand Slam, doesn't matter what you did before, it's always nervous and excitement.

Any time you go into the playoff game everyone's adrenaline is high and tensions are going, stuff like that.

It's easy to say when you're on the outside and when you're the coach or for people to say, 'Oh, you should have done this, you should have done that.' But when you're in there in front of thousands of people and you get hit and you want to win the fight, it's totally different.

When you go out there, and you're in the ring, honestly, half the time you forget what city you're even in because you're so focused on what you're doing and the task at hand.

I go inside the Octagon for fight. I don't joke, because it's danger.