Quotes About Performance

It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.

Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

There's nothing better than going out there and performing and making that connection with audiences. Even after all this time I get the biggest buzz from that.

One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

One time I was singing along with a boy that looked like me in the crowd and he pushed away the mic and started making out with me and accidently bit my lip and I had to get stitches.

I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.

There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.

The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

You have to give 110% all the time. 100% isn't good enough anymore.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.