Lewis Howes Quotes

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

I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.

Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.

I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.

Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'

Performing was terrifying.

I have to prove myself five times over.

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.

Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

Acting scares me.

I've never been one who agonizes over my work.

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

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

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.