Dave Haywood Quotes

Auditioning is the worst.

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

Being on a TV show is incredibly daunting.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

I can't understand it myself - how nervous I was when I took the floor for 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I walk out with 50,000 people gathered in the Millennium Stadium to fight Mikkel Kessler in the unification fight for the super middleweight division in 2007, and I feel great... and here I am, wearing tight pants and Cuban heels, and freaking out.

For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves.

I am not worried about playing in front of a big crowd.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

Auditioning sucks!

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

I'm scared of audiences.

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.

Live TV would terrify anybody.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

Before every performance I feel nervous.