Quotes About Performance

Standing there and throwing, that's what everyone likes to see.

I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.

I want the ball in my hands, throwing the ball, making decisions.

I'm a firm believer in staying out of the way. When you're on a team and the guy's throwing a no-hitter, you don't talk to them. You let them do their thing.

I still want to look good while training hard and throwing down.

I've got to be confident in all the pitches I'm throwing so I can throw anything in any count.

I love throwing the deep ball.

Pro Day was very important for me because that was really the only time that I had to prove that I could play at an NFL level and that was really through the physical drills they put me through which was running and throwing the ball. It turned out pretty well for me.

When I was younger I used to get really nervous before games, so much so, you are almost throwing up before games.

We once played Strathclyde University's student union where they had a crash barrier in front of the stage. I thought that was a little over the top until the gig started and there was this crush at the front. They were even throwing beer bottles - it was wild. You'd have thought we were a rock group instead of a barbershop quartet.

I don't want to get good at throwing off schedule because I don't want to be off schedule. I want to have my protections to be solid, I want to be in the right play, and I want to get the ball out of my hands as quick as possible.

I'm not throwing a no-hitter Opening Day. It's just not going to happen.

You worry about how you're throwing the ball, how you're executing your pitches.

I never was a sick like throwing up type of guy. I get nervous with the butterflies in the stomach. I was never a throwing up kind of guy... I'm kind of a pacer. I can't sit down. I can't sit still. I guess that's why I don't ever sit down the whole game.

When I was an actor, I liked throwing a challenge to other actors.

People didn't question my knowledge, my throwing ability or athleticism; they questioned my ability to stand in and take a hit. So to be able to answer those questions on a week-to-week basis has been pretty cool.

As a child I was always busy, always throwing myself into something, whether it was the Brownies or a play at school.

I never actually thought about my delivery. I was always just throwing the ball.

I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.

I'm 30, but I feel mentally as good as I've ever felt and as far as throwing the ball and understanding the game, I feel great.

If I'm throwing a no-hitter and someone says, 'Hey, you've got a no-hitter,' obviously I'd be like, 'Yeah, I know.' I just try to be humble. I don't like to talk about myself. I have no problem speaking up when I screw up, but if I'm doing good, people are going to notice. I don't need to talk about it.

I try to play Hogan in an off-hand throwing lines way.

To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

I still get knickers thrown on stage, but not as much as they used to. In fact, I get bloke's boxer shorts thrown on and someone rolled a coconut on stage the other night.