Quotes About Performance

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people.

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.

One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

I had a fear of losing, a fear of what might happen if I had a bad game. Would I get dropped? I don't remember a lot of stuff in my career.

Concentrate on doing the job, not the fear.

Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

Life is not a rehearsal. Each day is new show. No repeat, not rewind, not retake. So give your best shot in all your acts. As the show goes on and on.

The happiness and unhappiness of our lives depends not on what we feel but on what we do, just as good and bad consists not in feeling but in doing.

There's a big difference between knowing and doing. Knowledge is useless without action.