Quotes About Performance

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.

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

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.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.' I want to get the dialogue just spot-on.

It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.

I enjoy fights the most once them nerves go away and you settle into the fight. That's when you can have your fun and be creative and just kind of be yourself.

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.

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

The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.

Every telecast, I still have butterflies and a little bit of nerves. But I think the nerves help. It elevates my attentiveness.

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've always had a thing for playing in front of people, and the nerves never really creep in too much for some reason for me.

I have always boxed better with a bit of nerves.

I wasn't born with nerves. You have to take yourself out of the equation and think about everyone else - you're the entertainer.

The nerves are still there. I might just do a better job at hiding them.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

If you're nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.