Jos Buttler Quotes

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

I think people are always nervous for your first game.

I've been nervous a number of times. Your first start. Playing in the Super Bowl. Your first Super Bowl. Very nerve-racking. The one thing that you can always fall back on is that you know what you are doing. You know how to play the game.

If ever I am the underdog I seem to play well and whenever I am the favourite I put too much pressure on myself.

I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

I'm always nervous. A classy comedian is full of self-doubt disguised with an air of false confidence. If there isn't self-doubt, you seem aggressive.

When I faced the likes of Shoaib Akhtar and Brett Lee for the first time, I had a little bit of fear in my mind. My thoughts were, 'Would I be able to face them? Would I be able to play them? Would I be able to hit boundaries?' There were so many questions and fear, also, that if the ball didn't hit my bat, it might hit me on the body.

When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

I don't know why, but I don't really get too nervous before games or practices or whatever.

Obviously, making my debut at such a young age, people put a lot of pressure on you.

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

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

I think pressure exists in a situation only when you are unsure of your talent and people are expecting a lot from you due to your lineage.

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.

Being the headliner is only more pressure if you're not very good.

I still feel pressure - I'm sure everyone who plays feels pressure - but I don't feel it as much now as when I was younger.

Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game… Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.

I've never felt as nervous as I did before a track meet - literally, stomach going crazy - 'cause it was just so difficult.

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.