Rafael dos Anjos Quotes

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

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.

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.

If you undermine people's confidence, they turn up at the contest trying to get second place.

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

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

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

Sometimes the weight of expectations, of doing anything, can be a little bit heavy.

I feel the pressure of getting something right.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

Sometimes when people ask a lot of me, or they're not liking what I'm turning in, especially when I'm working one on one with someone, I can get really insecure.

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.

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

No one puts more pressure on themselves than me as far as an individual thing.

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.

I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.

Honestly, with stats and things like that, I try not to think about them. I just find that the more you think about goals and assists - what you need to do and accomplish - the more you tend to fall short. When you hope for something and you want something, it comes to you.

Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game… Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.

Audley Harrison is quite a soft, gentle guy. He gives it all the talk but, when he's in the ring, you can see he's scared to death.

There's always a sense of, 'Oh, if I change my irons, they might not be as good or might not perform as well.'

Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.

I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on.

If ever I am the underdog I seem to play well and whenever I am the favourite I put too much pressure on myself.

My habit is to get real competitive and make racing probably more work than it is enjoyable, and I put a lot of pressure on myself, and I feel like there's pressure from the outside - it's probably not real, but it's something I imagine.

I know there is a lot of pressure on a goalie, a lot of responsibilities, but if you add on to yourself more than you need to, it makes it harder to deal with the adversity.