Uptight Quotations

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

I like someone who doesn't take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight.

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

We're so uptight half the darn time. And you can't blame us. We're playing at a level where we had three big games against three great teams and we needed to play hard. We played hard; we didn't make shots. The shots will come. We can't stress here and think we're not going to make any more shots for the rest of our lives.

We're not an uptight bunch. We just like to have fun. A lot of coaches like the team to be quiet and focused before a game. The way we focus is to clown around. We think about the task at hand. But we don't worry. We like to have fun, study and practice hard.

Practically everybody knows what its like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

We have to go out and play like it's fun. The other night, we looked like we had so much pressure on us. If we just come out and play hard and have fun out there, we're a lot better team when we do that. We were too uptight the other night.

To make a squirrel look less uptight, put tiny sunglasses on it.

Obviously the team knows the importance of the game. Whether the kids get too high or too uptight ... we'll see what they're like during the day.

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people.

He developed a little into a players' coach. The guys really wanted to go and play for him. He just made our whole environment fun and loose, which is rare nowadays, where teams are so uptight and worrying about all the little things instead of worrying about basketball.

He's distraught, he's nervous, he's uptight about this, as he should be. ... He's put a lot into this. We're just hoping he can come through this better than maybe we anticipate.

Hockey is supposed to fun. I think the only way to win is to have fun with it. You can't be uptight before the game. Everyone is going to be nervous, us especially being here for the first time, but I think just having fun with it is going to make everything easier.

I was a little bit nervous this morning and a bit uptight and I sort of didn't let myself go as much as I could have but once I got the wicket it was a big release, and I started bowling better after that.

I think we were uptight for this game. I think we were nervous playing for a district title here in front of all these people.

I think he was a little uptight in the first few games of the first set. It was a little gusty out there ? that could have been a factor as well.

That's the type of stuff we want as a team, everyone having a good time, ... We're going to go out there and play hard and have fun doing it. You don't have to always be uptight doing your job.

I wasn't panicked and I wasn't uptight about anything.

Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I'd have to say my wife who taught a rather uptight Englishman what there is to be got out of life. Susan is my greatest inspiration. She has more integrity than anyone I know, and integrity is more important than anything for a happy and successful life.

I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

We've got to be loose, and we are loose. We know if we don't win, we're done, so there's no sense in being uptight about it.

Very much so. He's a looser coach nowadays. He's not so uptight and not so vocal out there. He sits back and lets the leaders do their jobs. I think that's definitely helped to mold the team.

Even in this context, I am not going to get too uptight about it. When (officials such as Griffin) make statements that can be interpreted as political statements, the government should not be underwriting it. You just caught the fellow with a little egg on his vest, looking untidy.

Everybody got a bit uptight thinking Check Point was going direct but I do not think this is the case.

Ever since I've been here, people have gone crazy over our offense and said that our defense sucks, ... Well, guess what? We're making strides. The crazy thing is, now that the defense is finally balling, everyone's uptight because the offense hasn't been clicking.

The second half we just really opened it up and really relaxed a little bit. I think we may have been a little uptight and we really got after it in the second half.

Sometimes coaches can be so uptight that they bring down the game,

As coaches you have to be careful. If you talk too much about it, they get uptight and they play not to lose, not to make mistakes. You can't do that. They have to go out and play, yet you have to have focus. If you have that focus, usually you won't hurt yourself.

This is probably the most uptight I've been all season. Just because you wanted to win this game so bad.

A lot of teams have lost at home and won on the road. When we're on the road, I think guys are more relaxed. You can't come in here and be all uptight and all thinking about the game too much. I don't know what's the real deal.

They are excited about the opportunity, but what is good about this team is that they are relaxed and they are having fun. They put in all the hard work to get to this point and that's all we can ask of them right now, but they're not so uptight that they are not going to perform well.

They'll have realistic views of a difficult restructuring process. I don't think they'll go crazy and close three or five plants. They're not going to make too much noise. You don't want to get the union too uptight 21 months before you have to talk with them.

In that situation now, I'd relax more and enjoy it, not get so uptight about everything. I think the guys who can do that are really successful.

He's loosened me up a little bit. I was pretty uptight before he got here, so I think it's been good for me in a lot of ways.

You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

I felt within myself. I felt like I was hitting the ball well and I wasn't panicked and I wasn't uptight about anything.

Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.

Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.

THE ONLY GOOD THING IS MY FANS LIKE ME AND COME TO SEE ME AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS. EVERYBODY ELSE CAN KISS MY ASS. IF THEY DONT LIKE MY POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS THEN THEY CAN KEEP THEIR UPTIGHT P C ASS AWAY FROM MY SHOW. ITS THAT EASY.

What are you? Insane? I’m not interested in Ms. Preppy Uptight Sloan Ranger. Jeez. I’d get khaki between my teeth. Can you imagine? I’ve never been in khaki and I never want to see a woman out it. It scares me. (Dev)

(The Giants) completely dominated us the first go-around. We have a lot at stake and I know the Giants do, too. I think it's a big deal that you play the 15th game of the year and it's for something important. ... I get uptight because you worry about having to play the Giants. I don't like doing that, but we got a lot riding on it and I know New York does too.

The market was disappointed about the data but I think it's way too early to get uptight about stocks.

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

I'm disgusted with having to deal with the commercial side of our band at the moment and as a reaction, I'm becoming more uptight and complaining more. And it feels like I'm adapting a rock star attitude.