Quotes About Performance

I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good!

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

I'm into classic rock, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel.

My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.

Even during a sprint, I can occasionally still accelerate. I am so fit that I can accelerate during a acceleration, like making a new start.

I usually sprint for 20 to 30 metres - occasionally 50 to 60 metres maximum. But no footballer ever sprints a complete 100 metres during a game.

There are a few moments in every game when I will have to sprint and use my explosiveness to win.

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

You can have a great car in the Sprint Cup Series and run 15th with it. It's super competitive. These guys are just really good.

A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.

When you win sprints, you're a great sprinter, but when you win a great one-day race, you've proved you're a great rider.

For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.

The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good.

I'm a sprinter man. We don't jog; we don't walk. It's full-out. It's big engines. You don't take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.

I like watching athletics and I like watching boxing. Probably the sprints, I like watching sprinting.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.

Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.

Darren Campbell has helped me out a lot with my sprinting mechanics. These are things I've always wanted to do, but neglected as I am already fast and strong.

Fans give me abuse all the time. Nearly every team does that. If I wasn't a good player, you wouldn't feel like you need to boo me the whole game. So do that if it makes you feel better, but it does spur me on. It's like, 'You expect something from me; that's why you're doing this,' so I don't mind it. They can boo me all day long, really.

I am jumping to put the Spurs shirt on, but I will have to prove to the coach that I deserve to play.

The crowd lifts you and spurs you on. And I don't get rattled - that's my strength, I think.

It's been five seasons now that I'm with Spurs, and I've got a little bit frustrated about Europe. We've got the talent to go further than we've done.