Graeme Le Saux Quotes

I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

When you go out to play in different conditions against different bowlers, it is always challenging.

The NXT environment is so competitive.

Well, this game is not easy. There are 29 other teams, and less than 1% of the world is playing at the highest level, all supposed to be here.

I'm not insecure. Give me a good role, and I'll perform even for a multi-starrer with half a dozen other heroines!

I was told before that one of the hardest jumps to do, painlessly, is the one from playing clubs into playing arenas. I am completely aware of that now.

No matter how much you train, you can't replicate the stresses that the body takes when it's in a competitive environment.

I think it's bad in a way for junior players and college players to feel they must be number one.

I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.

When I played for Arsenal, like once per month, you always had this feeling you had to perform.

I like the more community element of comedy. And I hate people pitting other people against each other. Audiences are always judging you, but when you're being judged for a competition, it just takes away the joy of the job.

I played to the biggest audience I've ever played to in my life in New Zealand. I couldn't see the end of the crowd. I understand it was over 200,000 people in a park somewhere.

Consistency is a huge thing at the top. It's hard to get to a good level, but once you get to a certain level, there's people who want your place.

People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.

The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of life, and a much greater percentage try very very hard and they don't. That's just the way it is.

Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.

To succeed in comedy you ultimately have to put in the hours and get lucky - The amount of people who are able to break through is so small a fraction of the amount of people trying.

I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.

Everybody wants a big crowd. You get amazed sometimes with certain things that millions of people are watching and you go, "Serious?! Really?!" And then, there are things that you really, really enjoy and not a lot of people are watching. It's very, very hard to predict how it works.

When you go to a movie with so many stars [like The Expendables 3], you don't know what you're going to find, exactly. You don't know if it's going to be an ego trip, ego on the set, who is taking this position, where the camera is, I want to be in front of this guy - that's true... It's worse, actually, when you have people around you that are very hungry to obtain something that they never had. Success.

Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.