John Daly Quotes

However much I try, I can't shake off the effects of the yips.

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.

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

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

Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.

I think when I start thinking about results, I stop playing the right way because I start getting too nervous.

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.

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.

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.

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.

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

And I think before I was so focused on speed or I was so focused on trying to hit this great putt that I just wasn't reacting to what I was doing. I react when I hit an iron shot, why can't I do that when I'm over the putter?

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels.

Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

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

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

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

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.