Ryan Fitzpatrick Quotes

I can feel this pressure of living up to the expectations of people. I hope I can fulfill it.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

You always feel pressure to do your best, and when you know that the story revolves around you, it can become very overwhelming.

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

Nerves can happen to even the best of us. It's not easy to compete.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

I don't like to have really any expectations for myself.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Pressure makes me produce. Kills most guys. Mortifies 'em.

Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

I've always had a lot of pressure on myself, but I'm not going to lie, I feel a lot of pressure to give the fans everything they expect plus more.

I just don't want to fail, to be honest.

People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired.

I carried around a lot of weight and anxiety - expectations of being a top draft pick and fulfilling those. It was really burdensome and not fun. Stressful. I had to go through some things before I finally turned that around and got back to playing for the right reasons.

I wanted to prove myself on the pitch, but I didn't have many chances, so it put a lot more pressure on every single game that I played. I found myself in situations where I was so keen to show my qualities, but many times it worked against me and I was punished for being too eager.

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.

Pressure comes from fear. If you start thinking about the result or what might happen if you do something, that's the only time there's pressure.

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.