Quotes About Performance

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

I would not put Dak Prescott on the bench. I would leave him as the starter, and I wouldn't have a problem with that at all.

I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter.

Nobody is guaranteed to be a starter; thinking that would be a mistake.

It's completely normal that every player wants to be a starter. But ultimately the coach decides and we have to accept it.

When my number is called, nobody cares if I am a starter or not. They just care if I make plays or if I'm productive.

I will do anything a team asks me to do. If it's to come off the bench, I would impact the game by coming off the bench. If I were to start, I would impact the game as a starter. I would impact the game either way.

Being able to put the film out there that I did and prove that I can be a starter in this league, it's put me in a good situation.

It's one of those things: you can't really control how much you play or when you play, but when your number's called, I think if you make the most of your opportunities in this league, that's what makes good players. That's what I've tried to do in my short time being a starter, and good things have come from it.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

My last four years in Orlando, I was a really good player but I wasn't a full-time starter.

To me, there's no honor to say, 'I'm going to start.' As long as you're getting minutes, you're closing games, that shows more of the value to the team than to say you're a starter.

I played varsity in high school as a 9th grader. I came off the bench during the first game of the season and had 25 points. Well, I became a starter after that and in the second game I scored 53 points.

If you are a reliever, you get one inning per game or if you are a starter you get one game per week. There is a lot of buildup for a little bit of work compared to the guys who play every down or play every day in baseball.

I hope that I will be the starter and that I'll play important minutes.

I know I'm good enough to be a starter and I'm a much more productive player when I get starter minutes. But I don't have to start. That's not me.

It's true that at Malaga, I played every game as a starter, but here at Madrid, they give nothing away.

I always prepare like I'm a starter. Three-down back.

It doesn't matter if I am going to come off the bench or if I am going to be a starter.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

I shouldn't have to come out and say, 'Hey, I should be a starter again.' There's a lot of guys that say that, that shouldn't be starters. The key is to go out on the field and lead your team to show people that, 'Hey, this guy is a good guy in the locker room. He can lead a team. He did it on the field. He's shown it.'

You play against receivers, they're in one play and then they'll put somebody else in, run you deep and get you tired. Then they'll put their starters back in.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

I was scared of the devil starting around age nine. Before that, I was gathering every family member in the living room, slipping a shirt over my robe so the bottom hung like a skirt and performing Gloria Estefan songs with feverish intensity.