Charles Barkley Quotes

When you're tense and you're forcing the issue, you kind of cloud your vision, so I think just being confident and super relaxed, waiting for my timing, has really helped me.

The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.

It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

I'm not a super nervous guy in general. I don't live a ton of my life in my head.

So I think it's like the night before the exam. Obviously, you stress. But when you have done your job well, then you need to go down, relax and enjoy.

I don't know why, but I don't really get too nervous before games or practices or whatever.

Being relaxed allowed me to fight the way I'm capable of fighting.

If you concentrate on action and forget the results, you actually perform much better, because then you are not worried what will happen.

I don't really think about the degree of difficulty or the possibility of making a mistake. I just try to relax and let my preparation and training take over.

Penalty kicks are so much about confidence and your mentality going into them. If you go walk up to a kick and you're not sure where you're gonna place it, or you're feeling a little uneasy, that's when you often miss it.

If I was to get nervous, then I'm wasting my energy.

I don't get nervous. I don't feel pressure.

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.

If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

I do a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.