Quotes About Performance

Call it madness or call it self-affirmation but if I can't convince myself I'm great, how will I persuade the Spectators?

Show me your faith without youra works, and I will show you my faith by myb works.

When you have two notes from two different performances Auto-Tuned, it sounds like a car horn. And then you add harmonies, and it starts to sound like baby seals honking. - Tom Lord-Alge on Auto-Tune

Whatever the test, whatever the evaluation, FN-2187 consistently scored in the top 1 percent.

Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.

It was as if I'd found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn't have a script. But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be.

The stillness was so complete that I could hear myself swallowing. They wanted me to give them something, and they expected it to be good.

It was as if I'd found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn't have a script.

Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

I was trying to break world records in cycling.

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

I had to go out and give my team a chance. I didn't want to be remembered as the guy blowing the World Series.

I've done about everything in show business except to play on Broadway. I always hoped that I would one day. It's the World Series of show business. If anybody tells you they're not intimidated, they're lying.

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.

You never want to have Yadier Molina up with the bases loaded in the World Series, but, dammit, you wouldn't want a better hitter up. Maybe that's not the way most people think, I don't know. That's how I think.

We don't just say this every spring training - 'Playoffs, World Series.' You've got to do it.

I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.

I do think we can be honest and upfront that certain organizations haven't gotten the job done. That's the approach we took in Boston. We identified certain things that we hadn't been doing well, that might have gotten in the way of a World Series, and eradicated them.

The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we're playing into November every year.

I would like to come back in the World Series. And I want to pitch better.

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.