Tony Gonzalez

While I was playing, I started a company that didn't work out. I got a taste of the business world and realized I'm not going to be a 9-to-5 guy in the office after football is over. When the opportunity came for television. I thought, 'Let's go for it,' even though it was nerve-racking. I enjoyed it.

American Athlete

Laura Harrier

If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

American Actress

Alphonso Davies

Obviously Messi is one of the best players in the world, if not the best player in the world. Looking up to him when you're young and now playing against him, it was very nerve-racking for me - especially when he would come up on my side, my heart would be beating faster and faster.

Canadian Footballer

Richard Cabral

I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not used to society; you're not used to the world going by so fast - so to step on that lot was quite overwhelming.

Mexican Actor

Naomi Watts

It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

English Actress

The Weeknd

You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking.

Canadian Musician

Itzhak Perlman

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

Israeli Musician

Duncan Jones

It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on.

English Director

Donny Deutsch

Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

American Businessman

Leslie Mann

American Actor

Used for situations that put you on edge due to potential negative outcomes.

Emotional Weight

Often used when discussing long periods of stress, especially when waiting for something important.

Extended Waiting

Appropriate for situations where there's a lot to lose, enhancing the tension felt.

High Stakes

 because everyone else gets awkward when they're around me. People who support me and all other trans people wholeheartedly are often so scared to say to wrong thing, so embarrassed to not know what they think they should, that they never ask. Part of what was so nerve-racking about coming out as transgender

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 they're just driving behind me I'm nervous I'm conscious of my speed limit it's always nerve-racking for me I stopped the car everything to pull it over the driver looks more like one of our suspects because the wife said no you never know what's gonna be the

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 some with these extremely handsome mannequins that you see here. We had an independent safety auditor give us the green light, but still, it was nerve-racking. We were boldly going where only these handsome mannequins had gone before.

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 nerve-racking but I guess like all animals it's just a question of letting them feel that they're not restrained that they can go where they want to go and hopefully you don't get bitten please don't prove me wrong that's great

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 nerve-racking part comes in I just don't want slightly the copperhead bite is pretty dangerous when someone who's Copperhead be it that it feels like wherever your bid at is in a vise grip and it feels like your hand is in a

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 in the pier out last night ended up running out of daylight so I got stuck here overnight with the gear and we have a bit of a blizzard blowing now so little nerve-racking we have a lot of the gear here camera lenses and

Darkness Falls - Behind...

 nerve-wracking i know it's really nerve-racking just all the complexities that go into everything batteries and kilometers keeping everything dry and warm and not getting run over by a glacier

Capturing a Glacial...

 tracked one cat off the reserve so far and had no sign of any other cat at all so all rather nerve-racking at the moment hopefully we'll do a little better than we have we have in fact been

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 president I mean it's a little nerve-racking you can't help us just be able to feel the eyes on you so yeah when you're going in on this fresh kill sides knowing that it's still there that

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 And yes, it's a little nerve-racking. Diver Hoo! That little guy is frisky!

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