Pre-Game Nerves Quotes

On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.

I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.

The way the field feels like before the game isn't like what the field is during the game.

When I was younger I used to get really nervous before games, so much so, you are almost throwing up before games.

In the past, before games, I would near enough make myself ill. Nerves and stuff.

Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.

I get that every game. High school. At Duke. When I do the introductions, I get a little butterflies. Once I step on the floor, I'm fine.

I don't feel pressure going into games.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

I just think you need to believe in yourself - be offensive, but still have some nervousness in your body before any important game.

Emotionally, making my debut has been the highlight so far. I didn't know I was starting until three minutes before. I went in and put my shirt on, and the team were already in the tunnel.

I get too hyped before games.

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.

I'm not superstitious about anything in my life - except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don't like talking about it. I don't like making predictions.