Jahangir Khan Quotes

It's impossible, when one team and one player is afraid of something that might happen in a match, they will not play well, they will not have 100 per cent confidence.

You see a lot of guys who are told they will be the number one contender if they win the fight in front of them. They have fought a couple of really tough guys to get there, but when the chance is presented to them, something happens in some shape or form, and they aren't able to take it. They end up losing. That was the biggest fear for me.

I lack confidence as an actor.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

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.

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

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

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I always played my best when I respected my opponent and was a little scared of them because they could beat me. Every game I played in college, that was the case.

Every match that I have, I always feel like I'm more nervous than the last one.

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

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.

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

It's hard to play with any kind of confidence when you feel like if you miss one shot, if you make one mistake, you're getting pulled.

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

It's hard if you don't quite feel on your game to go out and put scores on the board.

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

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

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

Auditioning is the worst.

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.