Quotes About Performance

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

We'll do it live... WE'LL DO IT LIVE! FUCK IT! DO IT LIVE... look, I'll write it and we'll do it live! Fucking thing SUCKS!

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

County Stadium, while it was one of the older parks in the game, had an atmosphere in the summertime unmatched by at least the majority of other parks. The tailgating and the loyalty of the fans made it a great atmosphere for the players to perform in.

Watching him, I learned that you take the broadcasting job one day at a time. You don't worry that the team is 20 games out. First place? Last place? It doesn't matter. You just hope for a good game that day. You don't rip people.

Ueck's job was protect Bob Kuban, and the band that was playing in left field. They took a break. Roger Craig said, 'Ueck, why don't you grab a tuba?' He dropped his glove, grabbed the tuba, and caught about five balls in it. I remember [Cardinals general manager] Bob Howsam sent him a bill for $116 after the World Series for damage to the tuba.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

Brent Musburger's orgasmic narration

not only did Bird's team win, but Magic choked badly in crunch time of Game 2, Game 4 and Game 7. (I mean, badly. Like, everyone rehashed it all summer.)

That's control of the flow. Flow plus meaning equals performance.

his 1999–2000 season (24–7–9, 153 steals, 45 percent FG, 82 games, 3,425 minutes) ranks in the pantheon of Greatest Point Guard Seasons Ever Ã¢â'¬Â¦

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

It isn't the high price of stars that is expensive; it's the high price of mediocrity.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

You simply have to love show business to make the risk worthwhile.

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.