Wolfgang Puck Quotes

I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resilience. On the last nine holes of the Masters or the Open, there's going to come at least one point when you want to throw yourself in the nearest trash can and disappear. You know you can't hide. It's like you're walking down the fairway naked. The gallery knows what you've done, every other player knows and worst of all, you know. That's when you find out if you're a real competitor.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

I bet on everything. Everything. It's just like, 'I bet you I can spin my chair longer.' Everything, I say 'I bet you.' I love to win.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

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

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.

Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.

A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

I just love the pressure, truthfully, man.

People make just as many mistakes when the stakes go up, maybe more.

I think the stress of being No. 1 in the world is more of a motivating factor for me just because I don't want to lose it.

Even when I play in World Cups, I don't look at things like that. It's something that I want to be doing, so why would I put extra pressure on myself? I'm just going to go out there and enjoy it.

I love to play big games, it makes you a bigger player.