Nathan Chen Quotes

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

The pressure was huge going into London, definitely.

My thing is, I like if I go on that court and there's a guy I don't have to worry 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.

Any fight I feel pressure, just the same as the last one, the next one will be just as important.

I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

I love the Olympics.

Auditioning is the worst.

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

You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

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

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

Obviously, the competition at an Olympics, the emotions are running high, and the stakes are higher for these athletes, so it does bring an incredible, palpable excitement and emotion into the building.

For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

At the Olympics, for those eight minutes of each fight, all that attention was on me. Either the crowd is with you or against you.

Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.

What the event will be like, being part of the Olympics and being in London, is too much to think about. You've no control over those things, so in a way, it's wasted energy to think of them.

Before normal games I was always relaxed. But at the World Cup for Italy my heartbeat was always going a lot quicker.

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