Karen Kain Quotes

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

The honest truth is - and I have felt this way forever - is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any director.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

I think I'm my own worst enemy.

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you

Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

'Bad' health, in a thousand different forms, is used as an excuse for failing to do what a person wants to do, failing to accept greater responsibilities, failing to make more money, failing to achieve success.

Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing 'I Have Confidence' was to go completely nuts with panic and fear.

I'm not sure if I can swagger anymore, but I can limp with the best of them.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.

My teammates don't see it, but deep down I find it tough to sit there and not influence big games.

I think my worst enemy is me.

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.

It's tough when you struggle physically to meet your own expectations.

The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.

The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst enemy.

I'm my own worst enemy.

It is just down to confidence. When I haven't got any, I hate playing the game.

When I announced my retirement, that was actually when I was trying to come back and I realized, it just wasn't viable. It passed me by. My shoulder is done. I brush my teeth with my left hand now. That's just the way it goes. I can't shoot a basketball, I can't throw any kind of ball. I was right handed.

I just feel like I'm on a quest to fail if I try to even compete with myself.