Nervous Quotes

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it's like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

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

Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.