Crowd Pressure Quotes

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The bigger the crowd, the more likely I'll do whatever it takes to win.

Playing at Kentucky, before 24,000 people, you have to learn how to grow real fast and play under pressure and playing on ESPN with millions of people watching. Right away, you learn how to play under control.

Any crowd that gets on your back makes it difficult, but you are going to get that if things aren't going well. The fans have got their right to give their opinion.

It's easy to be drowned out by the crowd, but to thine own self be true, say I, no matter what everybody says, no matter what the popular vibe is.

I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye of the camera, talking to all the nation.

To make a politic speech is like being carried up a flight of steps by the pressure of a crowd.

For every athlete, the roar of the crowd goes away, and we have to learn how to turn the page.

You can let the size of the crowd, when you do Super Bowl, overwhelm you if you want, and that opening on camera is one of the most intense, awkward feelings you can ever have.

I don't really change much; there's not much I can do about the judging in front of a home crowd.

The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.

I'm fine with pressure. I went to Kentucky, dealt with it all season, playing in front of all the top teams and top crowds.

Even when you're right in the middle of a tour and you've done 30 or 40 shows, you still get them butterflies in the stomach right before you go on stage.

It takes a lot of nerves to be a sports entertainer and to be in front of those big crowds.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.'

Going to places like Tynecastle, where you're so close to the crowd, you get reminded how ugly you are and stuff like that!

'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.

Once you step on the court, you see the crowd, you see the final, you see I'm here playing another Wimbledon final.

It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

Sometimes, when a person gains a lot of success at a very young age, they become targets, and it's really easy to follow the crowds and not make independent decisions based on truly how you feel.