Richard Thaler Quotes

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

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

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

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

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

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.

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

Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.

If you make enough decisions in life, you’re bound to make some of them wrong.

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

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

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.

You can have all the experience in the world and come out and not play well.

I feel that, irrespective of a hit or flop, there's always pressure on an actor. When you give a flop, there's a pressure to ensure that the next film works, and when you give a hit, you want to keep it going. So, the pressure of success and failure is always there, and that's what keeps me going.

The pressure was huge going into London, definitely.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

You make mistakes at the results end of football and you can be out on your ear pretty quickly.

Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.

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.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

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.

There's games you try one field goal, and if you miss that one field goal you'll feel like crap for the whole rest of the week... It doesn't do you any good.