Quotes About Performance

Of course you want people to notice you're back, and you're playing well just to be respected. Because I was an All-Star, a first-team All-NBA guy. But I don't need the media putting a spotlight on me.

I only want to play, don't like the life in the spotlight.

The bigger you get as a player, the bigger the spotlight.

I'm the type of person that, when it's my time in the spotlight, I'll do my duty in the spotlight. When it's not, and it's another person's time, I'll go away.

On stage the spotlight is on me and I cannot afford to be shy.

With United the spotlight is always on and there's always going to be that pressure, no matter what the game is.

At Arsenal and the so-called big clubs, you always know that there will be a bigger spotlight on every single position.

The bigger you become as a player and the more success you have as a player, the spotlight definitely becomes brighter.

NBA, that's the biggest spotlight I've ever been in before. It was crazy at first. I just had to take a step back. Get back to what I know: having fun.

Sometimes when you are playing non-stop international cricket in all formats - which was the case with Jadeja - you do well one day, get hammered the next, and immediately the spotlight is on you. That eats into you.

I love playing in the spotlight... I feel like that's motivation for everyone.

A lot of guys just can't handle the spotlight and the pressure, so they shy away from it, like 'oh, I don't want to be in it.' That's never me.

I always try to shine the spotlight on what's happening on the field and not what's coming out of my mouth.

To be straight, if I play and don't bowl 90 miles an hour it's going to be news. If I don't bowl 90 miles per hour for long enough it's going to be news. If I don't put my left sock on first, it's going to be news. I understand that is the scrutiny of playing at this level and being in that spotlight.

A lot of people think the orchestra is playing and the conductor doesn't do very much, but the conductor's the person that gives shape to the music, gets the phrasing, and if he has really fine musicians in solo spots, the question is does he try to help them phrase, or does he let them go?

I do radio gigs, three-minute spots, solo shows, so I still get plenty of practice at the sniper attack - me at a piano or with a guitar, having to win people over fast.

Being out there, I know how to play the game and know my spots. Just get rebounds, block shots, defend.

If you're open in certain spots, you just shoot the ball. It doesn't matter if you're good from that spot or not.

A lot of times we would feed off of the crowd. A lot of things that we were doing in the match was called on the fly. For example, Ric Flair and I would go into a match and have a couple of spots and moments set up. And then, of course, we would line up the finish. But the rest was called on the fly.

Seeing the ball go in during the game, getting to your spots, getting spot-up shots. You have that rhythm and you have that confidence in yourself. And everybody else has that confidence in you too, more importantly.

Sometimes I carry a Green Marble SeLr setting spray. It's the one drag queens use. That is bomb.

If you're playing for 10 or 15 years, you can't every week run six option plays. It can be around. It can be a part of the game, but sooner or later you've got to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the game. Now, if the game changes, and it's proven a championship can be won from the pistol spread, then I'm wrong.

If you look at a bill of comics at a comedy club they spread the women out over the months because there aren't that many women doing it.

Raging and having good feelings and having fun is something I plan on doing and spreading across the world. I just need air and a mic.