Quotes About Performance

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

I always saw hurdles as a form of art, because it's very individual. One technique that may produce a world record for one guy could be useless for another guy.

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.

I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

I've set no world record.

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.

For me, I've not really focused on a world record. I'm just trying to put a complete race together, and when I do that, then fast times will come.

You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.

The heptathlon world record is nice, but the decathlon is the event. I think the heptathlon is more like a practice. There is something completely different about the decathlon.

Dave Franco, I could put him up there with the best card throwers in the world. Not the best sleight of hand, but he could take a card and fire it over there and stick it into an apple. If he kept training at it, he could definitely break a Guinness World Record - he's that good.

Everyone's different, but I think the snug feel is definitely popular on tour. A lot of guys like to feel like they are held tightly in their shoe. That feeling helps you move around the court quicker.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.

Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.

All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

When I was starring as Roxie Hart in 'Chicago,' I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet tights and fell flat on my face. It was incredibly painful and not something you can cover up.