Sam Mikulak Quotes

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

Being in a career and going from highlight to highlight and playing a lot of matches you go through it and think it's normal when you play in front of 60,000 and you almost want to vomit in front of every game.

Any fight I feel pressure, just the same as the last one, the next one will be just as important.

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

Auditioning is the worst.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.

I hate auditioning so much.

I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great. Fine. Whatever.' Coming to speak to about 60 kids, I am scared to death.

The pressure was huge going into London, definitely.

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.

Broadway is intimidating. Don't think it's not.

Auditioning sucks!

Sometimes thinking about the Olympics makes me a little nervous.

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

There were so many emotions on 'Idol' with nervousness and pressure, but in good ways.

It's not that I get nervous but when it's a really hot button crowd where they are really energetic I get anxious.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!