Quotes About Performance

In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.

Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.

Some actors have an affinity for dance, and they should explore it, train in it, and get good.

My point is if as an actor you can train yourself to sound better than a singer you must sing but if you can't do that then you must not sing.

There's nothing comparable to as 'in shape' as a professional dancer. You'd have to train eight hours a day for that.

I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.

When I train, I train well.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there's a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won't prevent you form performing, nerves that, hopefully, allow you to be that much more motivated and inspired to do well.

I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.

The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day.

I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.

In theater, the show must go on, so you train yourself to be able to nail it every single time because that's what the audience deserves, and that's the magic of live theater.

I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won't allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.

Even sleep is part of my job because I need a certain number of hours of sleep to be able to train at the intensity that I do. I'm constantly working to keep my body in the best possible shape.

As athletes, our job is to train and compete.

We had been told many times that astronauts would not make any mistakes. They were trained to be perfect.