Steven Hall Quotes

I always played on my nerves - on the edge.

Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland … On the other hand, it might easily be something as simple and basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

It's an addictive thing. It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

Time is my greatest enemy.

I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.

The reason we don't give a date by which we will acquire something is because we don't want to create pressure on ourselves to buy something.

I will admit that I purposely stress myself out. But I think I like stressing myself out. There's a glamour to, like, 'I've got to get to the airport!' I just like the caricature.

I always almost miss my flight. My routine is to constantly, no matter how bad or good the traffic is, to almost miss my flight.

A lot of guys, when the ball is coming, sit there and look at the clock; then it makes you rush your shot.

Closer to a fight, I can really feel my heartbeat in my chest. I can hear it beat through my mouth, this 'gunk, gunk, gunk' rhythm.

I thrive on the pressure. I love it. I love the fear factor that goes with it. Perhaps it's strange, but that's just me.

I like to believe I perform better under pressure and at the last minute.

My biggest pet peeve is rushing.

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.