Sue Barker Quotes

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

When you play a big server, you are under enormous pressure on your own serve because you cannot afford to be broken. That causes a lot of players to panic: you see double faults or tentative serves. It's all in the mind, but it still happens.

Yes, I am nervous before a film's release and withdraw into a shell.

Every match I go into, I'm the huge favorite. I lose a set and it's, like, crazy.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

Coaches do get very nervous.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.

It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.

Depression will always follow any decision to avoid a priority.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.

The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something... Maybe you just need to take a nap.

I'm not like Woody Allen like, "Oh my god what's going to happen? Ooh Ooh Oohhh." I'm just high-strung. So I do need to do a lot of stuff.

Being nervous actually kept me very tense.

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.

The present tense made him nervous.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.