Charles Leclerc Quotes

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.

I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.

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.

I used to psyche myself out. Only, back then, we didn't know the word 'psyche.'

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

There are times when I've had ideas walking down the street that I thought were great, and the minute I got onstage, I would think of them and go, 'Wow, that would never work,' even before I did it in front of the audience.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.

As women, we can over-think things so much that we silence our intuition and only focus on the reasons something won't work.

I think if you think so much, you simply cannot bat.

In around 2000, I became aware of a recurring problem of the 'tightness' around my cueing action, which somehow stops me believing that I can play the shot - even shots I could previously play with my eyes shut.

When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.

I kind of got down on myself, and started putting all this pressure on myself to go out there and play well. And that's when I was playing my worst.

I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.

The only person holding you back is you.

'What if?' is just about the worst question I can ask myself, and I want to avoid it at all costs for the rest of my life.