Tom Herman Quotes

If people want to put the pressure on me that fine but I don't put pressure on myself - that is where pressure comes from.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I put myself under immense pressure.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

Me, I don't want to put the pressure on myself.

I put pressure on myself.

I put enough pressure on myself already - I can sit here and work myself into an anxiety-filled breakdown without worrying what everyone else is going to think.

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.

You always feel pressure to do your best, and when you know that the story revolves around you, it can become very overwhelming.

I'm not one to put a lot of pressure on myself.

Most of the pressure, if not all, is self-imposed.

I'm so genuine about what I do and how I want to do it, and I get anxiety when I'm pressured from the outside.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

Every man makes his own pressure.

There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it's very hard to meet those expectations. That's been a big stress in my life.

I was just so nervous every time I was onstage. It took me many, many years to get to the point where I realized, 'All right, if I'm going to keep doing this, I've gotta remember that it's supposed to be fun. I've gotta stop putting so much pressure on myself, because otherwise, it's not worth it.' And I still am too critical of myself.

Honestly, I feel like pressure is only applied when you feel pressure.

Oh, I am 1,000 percent too hard on myself.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don't feel it.

I remember, playing in college especially, I cried in almost every game I played. I just felt so much stress and pressure that I was letting everyone down if I didn't score a goal or win the game. I carried that weight with me into every game.

The thing is, you don't ever want to have pressure turn to stress.

It stresses me out if I mess up.

Since I was little, I've always put a lot of pressure on myself.