Colin Kaepernick Quotes

I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.

Pressure comes from being unprepared.

Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.

You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

I'm always looking to the next thing. There are always hurdles, whether it's the White House dinner or hosting charity events or that night's show: Until they're over, I worry, then I move right on to the next thing. It's hard for me to enjoy the moment. I'm just thinking about not failing.

When I step up to that penalty spot, I know the consequences. They're the same whether I miss the first, second, third - or the 10th - it will be the same.

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

Everyone's just looking at you. They're expecting you to win every game, and it's just not possible.

With one film after another becoming a hit, nervousness only grows.

You prepare. You study. You've got to be ready for anything.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

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.

If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.