Paige Spiranac Quotes

When you play a big server, you are under enormous pressure on your own serve because you cannot afford to be broken. That causes a lot of players to panic: you see double faults or tentative serves. It's all in the mind, but it still happens.

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

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

I always performed out of fear of failure - and that's a tough way to play. It was as if my back was to the wall and I was constantly surrounded by very dangerous people that were not friendly to me.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.

In the end, success in a shoot-out is being able to perform a particular skill under pressure.

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

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

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

'Don't worry about it, and you'll be great,' said nobody, ever.

I've got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I'm working - and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

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

Football is constant pressure, from day to day. You need to know how to live with that.

You have to bury nerves, because they can either destroy you or give you that extra boost. You have to use your nerves in a good way. Don't let them destroy you.

I am nervous all the way through the national anthem and the first play. Once I get up and down the court a few times, it fades.

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.

It's impossible, when one team and one player is afraid of something that might happen in a match, they will not play well, they will not have 100 per cent confidence.

If you start badly, and the crowd get on your case, there is no way back. But if you start well and your confidence is high all that booing becomes music to your ears.

At a track, it's different, there's pressure, things like this, so to be yourself is a bit different.

Obviously, I can't break my mental block in the Octagon.

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

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

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 can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.