Shaun White Quotes

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves.

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

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

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

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

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

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.

In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.