Quotes About Performance

I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.

You still just got to play your game. No matter where you're at, you've got to play your game, especially in majors. When you try to push and try to make things happen, that's when you can make some big numbers at the majors.

I'm not a classical player. I don't want to be a classical player. I love to improvise, because things happen that never happen anywhere else.

A player cannot rely only on his name to make a difference but also has to work hard and make things happen on the pitch.

Being in this game nine years or whatever, you understand things happen. You can only control what you control, and that's on the court. You can't make front-office decisions and other stuff. You've just got to come out and do your job. You try to do it to the best of your ability.

It's a funny thing that when things happen in an actor's life, at some point it's just a performance, at another, it's a part of your life.

You could come out and play a flawless game and still lose to a quality team; you could do things right, but they hit shots and things happen.

The cast you are working with is important because it involves a give-and-take relationship. For me, when you have strong performers, multiple things happen, the magic of creation happens. That's where you build the craft.

When you fall short of your internal forecast, two things happen: Costs go up as a percentage of sales, and margins go down.

If you look round the world, most teams want guys who can bowl up at 90 mph because they can make things happen when it isn't doing much.

Things happen, you have bad shooting days, the defense kind of figures you out.

Don't think, just do.

I don't think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be giving them, and what the character is thinking.

Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.

When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.