Quotes About Performance

The U.S. Open was a huge moment in my career. It was one of the biggest stages, and for me to be calm and collected throughout the week and just kind of hang on and tie for fifth was huge for me mentally.

Every match should have a story in it and I see a lot of that lacking. I see a lot of guys doing a lot of good stuff, and I call it stuff, filling in the blanks in their match, but the stuff doesn't tie in.

If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It's where I feel most like myself - on stage singing.

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.

For me, depression is very much tied to my feeling that so much is being asked of me. I have to 'perform' rather than necessarily be myself. I have to perform a perfect Margo Jefferson, at an impossibly high level.

As a player, I always felt confident that if I was caIm, my teammates knew, 'He's going to do something to help us win.' As a coach, my hands are really tied. I got to believe in my players. If they see I'm calm, they'll believe I trust them, which I do.

When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

'Crouching Tiger,' of course, was a very dramatic role for me, and the fighting was very serious.

I need to play three or four weeks to get into a rhythm. I'm not like Tiger. I can't play one week and win.

I think what does influence you when you are going up against Rory and Tiger is the crowd, there's a lot more people milling around, there's more cameras and more distraction, and that's what makes it more difficult.

There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.

I've been through it before, intense games in tight situations, but I'm able to just stay calm and do my thing.

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It's much harder.

I'm not going to go out there and say that I'm better than X, I'm better than Y. I think I'm the best tight end in the game.

Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.