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Quotes About Nervous

In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.
~ Lee Westwood
When I was younger I used to get really nervous before games, so much so, you are almost throwing up before games.
~ Phil Jones
I never was a sick like throwing up type of guy. I get nervous with the butterflies in the stomach. I was never a throwing up kind of guy... I'm kind of a pacer. I can't sit down. I can't sit still. I guess that's why I don't ever sit down the whole game.
~ Philip Rivers
When I left Planned Parenthood, I was extremely nervous. I was immediately thrown into the media spotlight, and I had no idea what it was going to be like to be a public figure in the pro-life movement.
~ Abby Johnson
Originally a promoter came and asked if I fancied doing a few student gigs. I was a little nervous. I thought they wouldn't know who I was and, worse still, not care. The first gig was in Lincoln. It sold out. I had knickers thrown on stage and people were chanting my name. I can't remember having a reaction like that - even in '91.
~ Chesney Hawkes
They just love the Irish accent in the States. But I just talk really fast because I'm from Cork. It's my speed that really throws them, especially when I get nervous. Doing interviews there is really hard because you can't hear a word I'm saying!
~ Sarah Greene
I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.
~ Jamie Oliver
I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
~ George Foreman
I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.
~ Jose Carreras
A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion…. A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.
~ Samuel Eliot Morison
She nodded. "In the ship, the pilot's nervous system is connected directly with the controls. The whole hyperstasis transit consists of him literally wrestling the stasis shifts. You judge by his reflexes, his ability to control his artificial body. An experienced Transporter can tell exactly how he'll work with hyperstasis currents.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season.
~ Alistair Brownlee
Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything.
~ Christina Milian
I've been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn't nervous and there's no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.
~ Derek Jeter
I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.
~ Kim Basinger
I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.
~ Christina Ricci
One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
~ Samuel Larsen
Max was nervous long before Dr. Blue started to open what Max called the "bug jar.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
May we enter, my goddess? I have a nervous old woman out here who is about to wet himself with worry that his brother is dead. Caleb
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I must say, John, I never expected to find you all so nervous," Mrs. Montague said. "I deplore fear in these matters." She tapped her foot irritably. "You know perfectly well, John, that those who have passed beyond expect to see us happy and smiling; they want to know that we are thinking of them lovingly. The spirits dwelling in this house may be actually suffering because they are aware that you are afraid of them.
~ Shirley Jackson
We possess no criterion which enables us to distinguish exactly between a psychical process and a physiological one, between an act occurring in the cerebral cortex and one occurring in the sub-cortical substance; for 'consciousness', whatever that may be, is not attached to every activity of the cerebral cortex, nor is it always attached in an equal degree to any particular one of its activities; it is not a thing which is bound up with any locality in the nervous system.
~ Sigmund Freud
Three times during our talk the militant said he wanted to martyr himself against the West, making Kadyr nervous he was about to blow himself up in our van.
~ Simon Reeve
Hi. Hi. I shrug, as though to say Whatever. In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny bit nervous. So. So. I can play this game too. Poppy. Poppy. I mean, Magnus. I scowl. He caught me out.
~ Sophie Kinsella