Reggie Jackson Quotes

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

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

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

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we're playing into November every year.

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

If you are too into the fans and adoration and the world thinking you are the greatest, then you do not perform well.

If I hear about a big match coming up, I'll get anxiety about it, and I'll start thinking about it, like, 'What's gonna happen? Is this my shot?'

I competed at 'WrestleMania 33,' and I'm telling you, leading up to what should have been the biggest moment of my life, I couldn't find an ounce of joy.

I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.

I don't like sitting on the bench because I get more nervous there than when I am playing!

It was like a heavyweight fight, man. Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can't believe we're finally standing, after 108 years, finally able to hoist the trophy.

What was scaring me was if we lost, I didn't know how I'd play cricket again. This was such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a World Cup final at Lord's.

Any match you face, you know, you can be nervous.

Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.