Al Leiter Quotes

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

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

I think people are always nervous for your first game.

Any match you face, you know, you can be nervous.

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

I get nervous before every single game, but I think it's a good sign. It means I care and want it to go as well as it possibly can.

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

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

The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

When I was younger I used to get really nervous before games, so much so, you are almost throwing up before games.

I just don't want to fail, to be honest.

I don't know why, but I don't really get too nervous before games or practices or whatever.

I can just remember what I have seen, and then I often think about how I do well throughout the match, and then, if I miss one chance, everyone talks about the miss. Only that.

I can feel this pressure of living up to the expectations of people. I hope I can fulfill it.

Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.

I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.

Every match that I have, I always feel like I'm more nervous than the last one.