Quotes About Timing

I've listened to musicians who say that using a metronone makes you robotic, that it decreases your 'feel.' That's ridiculous. Either you have feel or you don't. Feel is one of those intangibles that can't be taught. But if you do have feel, using a metronome will allow you to play cleaner - and that'll make your 'feel' have more, well, 'feeling.'

I know sometimes the shots look a little crazy when I'm taking them early in the shot clock and stuff like that.

Reading what a good shot is, based on time and score of the game, based on the shot clock, based on my position - there's a lot of things that go into it. It's a lot of things that you think about based on when to shoot it or when not to.

There are incredible decisions made in a 48-minute game with a 24-second shot clock and the last two minutes of a game.

A lot of guys, when the ball is coming, sit there and look at the clock; then it makes you rush your shot.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

I have a manuscript that I'm almost done with, but I've been saying that forever. I'm on what I think will be the second-to-last chapter. It's a story about chance and coincidence.

I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.

You only think of the best comeback when you leave.

Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

With most specials, even the best comedians will tell you they could have cut 15 or 20 minutes out of it.

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

You've just got to play complementary football; you've just got to wait your time.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

The first condition for comedy is that if you laugh at your own jokes, others won't laugh. You have to say something funny very seriously.

If you're going to take a risk as a comic, make sure it's surrounded by other things that you're certain are funny.

When you are playing the longer version, there are times when you don't have to get bat on ball on a regular basis but maybe a good leave outside the off stump can play its part in you surviving and the time that you would like to spend on the crease.

I learned from my father how to swear right and how to string it together for optimum effect/affect. I use it like karate. I bring it out when it's needed.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

You can have it all, but you can't have it all at once.

People need to know what they need to know when they need to know it.