Alice Weaver Flaherty Quotes

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

I think when I start thinking about results, I stop playing the right way because I start getting too nervous.

I used to struggle mentally in these preseason games because you know you're not going to be in there long.

Pressure is self-inflicted.

When you're doing so much, there's so much on your mind. The bigger the artist you become, you have to think a lot more. I'm trying not to overthink everything!

Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.

I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.

There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don't feel it.

I remember, playing in college especially, I cried in almost every game I played. I just felt so much stress and pressure that I was letting everyone down if I didn't score a goal or win the game. I carried that weight with me into every game.

The thing is, you don't ever want to have pressure turn to stress.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

My wife is terrified. She thinks I'm going to race forever.

Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.

I'm always nervous before playing a gig, to tell you the truth. It's what nearly did me in when I was with the Libertines. I just couldn't handle it.

I really believe that I'm gonna blow up. It's how I feel.

Sometimes thinking about the Olympics makes me a little nervous.

When I was a player, all the pressures I felt created a lot of anxiety in me. I didn't know how to manage that on my own. I think I was missing someone - a manager, no doubt - who could teach me to control my emotions.

I don't worry about the thought of the game going to penalties - it doesn't matter!

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

When I was younger, I used to think ahead too much, and that would make me lose concentration in the match I was playing.

You can always recognise my restless peers and me; we are the people whose feet you hear tramping along the pavement at the other end of the phone line because we can only make calls while moving.

I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.