You probably hit the ball worse in majors because of sheer nerves.
I brought this account up to date from sheer nerves.
It had never occurred to them that the enemy might have the sheer nerve to take the offensive after all these years.
"Maybe you'd like to explain how long you'll be able to function on sheer nerve alone," he murmured.
But I think sheer nerves had pushed me over the edge.
When a man holds out through torture, on sheer nerve alone, the moment that he gives in, his strength will go.
And when everyone's running around in confusion a man who is firm of purpose can push his way up by sheer nerve.
No one suspected how much sheer nerve it took for her to walk so matter-of-factly into that building.
Somehow the family got through the next days on innate grace and sheer nerve.
The greatest danger in that first second was shooting each other out of sheer nerves.