Quotes About Performance

When you've got a team who are making a concerted effort to make a batsman feel uncomfortable it can look pretty ordinary.

You have got to try to make the batsman feel a bit uncomfortable to get him out.

The athletic part I never struggled with. It was the promos, the talking and, being uncomfortable in front of the crowd. Especially being a 'bad guy,' having people call me names, that was hard getting used to.

If you give anything less than 120% as an actor then you end up looking uncomfortable.

I hate to sound like someone twice my age talking about these comics today and all that, but it's as though their intent or goal on stage seems to be to see how uncomfortable they can make the audience, or how viciously they can savage their subjects.

Contending that top-level, male high school basketball players are better than WNBA all-stars, while blatantly obvious, makes us feel uncomfortable to write.

On the field if a shoe is too tight, that is the last thing you want,' he says. 'You don't want something uncomfortable that you can't perform in.

Every show my heart's beating real fast, my palms sweating. I'm uncomfortable and I'm trying to get off the stage as fast as possible.

It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.

It is not uncommon to use a towel in afternoon matches, particularly in a place like Mohali in the month of April-May.

It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

When I started doing stand-up in the late eighties, that was not an uncommon thing, that people dressed for the stage. I've seen that change as time has gone by to where, for me, it's something that people remark on. And that's when I started to really embrace it in a way and get more flamboyant and foppish with the way that I dress.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

I certainly think, obviously, rhythm is a huge part of being an actor. It just is unconscious, to a degree, but particularly in comedy, rhythm is pretty essential, and there's probably something more physiological going on.

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

The fans want to see more. They're there to see fights, they want to see more, they want to see people get put unconscious, whatever. But you can't get put in those spots.

I know we're not going undefeated. I know I'm not going to throw a touchdown every game.

I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again.

Like acting, undercover detective work requires a lot of performance. There's just more pressure because it's life-or-death situations.

People pull from drag culture because drag artists are - it's the ultimate art form and it's the last underdog art form. I mean, even clowns have college, you know what I mean? Drag queens, you have to learn drag from another drag queen.

Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it's-not-over-till-it's-over mindset.

If ever I am the underdog I seem to play well and whenever I am the favourite I put too much pressure on myself.

As a playing group you don't go into the game thinking about whether you're the underdog or not.

Look, when we go as favourites, then it's a problem, but if we go as underdogs then other teams feel the danger, so I think being underdogs is good for us and eases the pressure.