Quotes About Performance

When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.

The players who play have to perform. If they don't, then they will be replaced. That has always been the case.

You've got so many guys coming up and putting in work, and everybody wants to be in my position, so I gotta be paranoid and think that if I'm not producing, if I'm not going out there and winning fights and winning impressively, I'm gonna be replaced.

Live stage shows cannot be replaced.

There's no replacement for a live crowd. The fans are our barometer - whether they love something or hate it, they will let you know.

The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.

I have gained Selecao recognition, eventually. I'm very proud of it, and now I want to replicate my Benfica's performance for my country.

I love theater. You can't replicate the live format.

I have never pulled a muscle and I don't see myself as a person who needs to try and stay fit. I just need to play games and you can never replicate that in training.

I learned early on that you do yourself a disservice trying to replicate the record onstage every night. As a player, and for the audience I think, it's a mistake.

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

The quality of competitors abroad really pushes your timings, something that's tough to replicate in the country.

There is an emotional aspect to live players that, no matter how good the samples are, you cannot replicate.

You can never replicate the pressure you're under in a game.

People ask me all the time, 'Why don't don't you ever do drum clinics?' And my reply is always that I like playing music; I want to play with a band.

It's one thing to have a scouting report and not be able to execute it, and it's completely different if you're able to kind of work your way through that report, attack guys certain ways, use different sequences, and be effective with them.

If a team has multiple looks, it's so hard to stand in front of your team and say, 'This is the scouting report. This is what you have to prepare for.'

I know every year what my players get and what courses they get them in. I get a report every semester. What course. What grades.

Most men, even egotistic actors, always shy away from dancing with me. Other dancers report the same trouble. They probably figure that I would be mentally comparing them with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. So I go to parties and usually just sit - unless George Burns is there - and then I have a ball.

As footballers that's what we do when it comes to bonuses. we don't sit there and go 'yeah can I get £20million as a bonus.' You have to sit down, 'how much money does the club make, what's their reported loss.' You have to sit and go through it all and go OK, this is what you take, we feel that we should get that if we do this.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.