Quotes About Competition

I don't really play off nerves. I just want to win.

I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves.

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

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

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

Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.

Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in.

Even when you are there on top, you feel the same nerves.

I am extremely nervous before anything. People who say they aren't nervous are telling a white lie. Nerves get you going, as you are playing for so much at the highest level.

Every time I compete, I still get nervous. There are the nerves that are because 'oh this is really going to hurt,' then there's the, 'I have to go fast and I don't know how fast everyone else is going to go,' nerves.

I have always boxed better with a bit of nerves.

For me, if I attack two or three times but didn't get the point, then I would get nervous.

For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

Out on the hill under the helmet, nobody sees your face or hair, but then you take it off, and they do - that's the part I'm nervous about.

It's the Masters. If that doesn't get you nervous and your juices flowing, I don't know what does.

You're always nervous before a fight.

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

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

It's okay to feel nervous before a competition because it means you care about doing well.

In 2003, for my first Rumble, I was just as nervous then as I was 15 years later.

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