Jenny Ryan Quotes

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

The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.

Playing in attack is difficult. You are under scrutiny, and you have to be able to deal with that.

Anytime you're playing a major, the last four or five holes, it's not going to be easy. It's never a guarantee. It's never easy.

Auditioning is the worst.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

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

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

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

I think pressure is great; it can make the game more exciting and force us to play our best.

If you are not nervous for your first NFL game, then something is probably wrong with you.

Football is constant pressure, from day to day. You need to know how to live with that.

For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves.

Under pressure is something I thrive on.

You only get 15 minutes to work and show your art and everything can you do. At the end of the day, it's a fight.

When I was in Vojvodina, it is not possible to describe. If you play one bad ball, one little mistake, they are, 'Oh, what is that?' Then, some players, they are afraid to take responsibility. They don't feel well, you know; you don't have freedom to show yourself.

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

I am one of these characters who seems to thrive off a little bit of niggle, a little bit of pressure.

When you are nervous, then you can rush things, and you don't do things as well as you'd like.

I know how you can feel when you are playing under pressure.

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

I relish pitching underneath pressure.

I'm the world number one, so everyone is trying to attack me and trying to speed up.

I'm accustomed to pressure. It's what we, as players, live. If you don't want pressure, then football is not for you.