Nerves

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
Ty Cobb
War
American
Nerves
I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
Eric Clapton
Nerves
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Nerves
Skill
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Nerves
Skill
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning
Purpose
Eyes
Nerves
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
John Bonham
Time
Nerves
In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.
John Badham
Power
Bed
Logic
Nerves
Saying
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
Lauren Bacall
Beginning
Nerves