Quotes About Performance

We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they begin.

My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

In our day, when a pitcher got into trouble in a game, instead of taking him out, our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.

A homer a day will boost my pay.

I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

I'd like to tell you some jokes now, but you'd only laugh.

A toastmaster is a man who eats a meal he doesn't want so he can get up and tell a lot of stories he doesn't remember to people who've already heard them.

It has been discovered experimentally that you can draw laughter from an audience anywhere in the world, of any class or race, simply by walking on a stage and uttering the words "I am a married man."

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Just because you're beautiful, they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.

When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.

Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh, well, I think of my sex life.

I only have to stop the puck, not beat it to death.

Bed is the poor man's opera.

Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Epigram: a wisecrack that has played Carnegie Hall.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.