Was it merely a case of trying to impress people?

Well you're probably only doing that though in order to impress people when you go back.

He did not try to impress people by playing fast or loud.

Last year, coming off all the stuff that happened in the winter, I was trying to impress other people.

He didn't have to impress people with what he'd done.

If they're just cool, they might impress people in the short term only to be set aside later on.

At the same time, you're not there to impress people.

Maybe he was just trying too hard to impress people, making his first defense.

Makes you do stupid things to try to impress people.

They work all the time to make money to buy things to impress other people.