Quotes About Performance

On stage I try to be as spontaneous as possible, feeding off the energy of the audience. I just let myself be and have fun on stage.

I think the first take is best, as you are spontaneous, and after that, it becomes a mechanical thing. I don't believe in second take at all.

Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.

Whatever it is, music should sound spontaneous, I've derived a great deal of pleasure from playing jazz and having the knowledge of that spontaneity.

I am a spontaneous actor. I don't like giving more than two takes.

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

I'm that dude who will burst into song spontaneously.

I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.

Since I am not a trained actor, and I act spontaneously, I thought getting some training in acting will definitely help me take my performance up a couple of notches.

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.

Shooting is an amateur sport, but everybody does it professionally.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that's professional sport.

In Combate, we will push you. If you come to win, you come to prove that you belong in the sport; then, you belong in this company.

If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers.

Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.

Sport can never be scripted. What I had in my control was to be the best that I could be every single shot.

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

Actors normally go to the gym to achieve a certain kind of fitness for a role but when you start playing a sport, then you realise that being athletically fit is a very different kind of fitness.

In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

Football is a collective sport and many times it doesn't depend on you playing well. It depends if the team is playing well.

My favourite sport is cheerleading!

With sport, we should sit back, enjoy. It's awesome to watch.