Quotes About Performance

To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.

We are going to do 'Hot Tub' until we die. Every Monday. Then we'll come back and do it as zombies. 'Hot Tub' is very important. What we do is based on our live skills. It's stand-up and sketch and improv; everything we do in 'Hot Tub' is important to our jobs. And every Monday I'm excited to do it.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

For me, any time I'm on the football field, that's my comfort zone.

There's something about the energy and the expectations that an audience projects at you. I get up on stage and work and work, and there's chaos all around me, then I'll shut my eyes, and boom! I slot into the zone. It's like the eye of the hurricane. Everything is easy, and I'm capable of doing things I didn't know I was.

I just like to be in my zone, playing football.

Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

It's always different for whatever the scene asks for but usually, I listen to music before the scene just to get into the mood, mellow myself out and really put myself into the character's shoes. I zone out from everything going on around me and just focus on what I have to do. From there, I just let it happen.

There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.

I know how to zone myself in and just play the game.

You can't be in the zone in front of 12 million people, you've got to be chill.

You want to draft a guy that has production and gets the ball in the end zone.

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it's like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.

You don't really see tight ends out here doing dances in the end zone. But if you see me at night out on the town, I'm having a good time - I'm always dancing. It started in the backyard, not to necessarily showboat - but to be a showman. It's part of how we grew up, how we played the game, and now that I'm in the NFL, why not break it out?

Long track is more of a symphony... You're out there and you want to get in the zone.

Tight ends, third down, and the red zone is where you kind of need to stand out to be a very good tight end in this league.

I know people always say to get out of your comfort zone and take risks, but when you are on a live national television show, and you are competing to stay on it, then I don't think you should be uncomfortable up there. I think you should sell it and be your own best self.

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

Soft romantic numbers are my comfort zone but I would surely like to step out of it and try something peppy like a dance number.

I feel, in my live shows, I can be as dynamic as I want. It's my comfort zone. When I get in the studio, it's more of a solitary experience, which can be good creatively.

My comfort zone and where I feel most natural is being a heel.

I think to get Simon Cowell out of his comfort zone would be rather interesting. I don't know what I would make him do.