Billie Holiday Quotes

Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.

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.

I beat myself up in the studio because I know that a lot of people are expecting me to fail.

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

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

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It's like playing 'Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.'

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.

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

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

I worry a lot about what people think. I worry people think I'm not helping them enough, that they don't like my music, that I'm playing a song too fast or talking too fast. I worry my wife isn't happy with our relationship... I'm afraid somebody's going to take my career away from me. That it's going to go away, or I'm going to get fired.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

The questions that loom can be intimidating. 'What kind of moves is she gonna make? What is she gonna do?' There is this pressure that you're supposed to keep impressing.

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

Relegation - that's pressure.

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

The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either.

I'm just worried about what I'm doing. Case has played well, and Case is doing a great job. But at the same time, I'm not going to concern myself with him.

For me, if I attack two or three times but didn't get the point, then I would get nervous.