Jimi Manuwa Quotes

Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

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

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

I'll play as long as that competitive spirit and drive is there because that's what gets me up in the morning, that feeling of having a batsman drive at you, play and miss, the sort of theatre around that sort of stuff.

I felt good in the ring with John Cena.

I've played in a lot of important games in my life.

I love to play finals. I love to play on the big stadium.

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.

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

You want to play in big games.

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

You feel many things during a match. There are things that annoy you. During important games, I do not always touch the ball a lot.

You can't beat playing in front of a crowd, scoring, winning, the adrenalin.

It is pretty daunting - the Cell has been responsible for some amazing matches, but it can also lead to some pretty real injuries, so that plays into your mind.

You can sit and imagine what it is like to go into a hostile stadium, or what it's like to play for the AFC championship, but you never know until you do it.

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

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.

The biggest thing was just getting comfortable out there in front of all the people and just the whole major setting and how difficult major championships are, how patient... you have to be.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

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

When you do RAW or Wrestlemania or a PPV where there's 10,000 people or more, you don't necessarily look at the people. The only time there's a realization that there's that many people is when you walk to the ring. Once you get in the ring, your focus is only on the ring, and maybe the front few rows.

There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

I just love playing in major championships.

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.