Quotes About Performance

The pace is so fast in summer stock. In college shows, there is more time for rehearsals.

When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

You understand in this league that if you don't win, everybody's stock tumbles.

The stock company, as I knew it is dead. Road companies are few and far between. Still the theater must survive.

There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

If you were to just design the perfect retirement plan, you would own the stock market or you would own the bond market. You would get all the costs or all that you possibly could out of the system. So on an annual basis, if the market went up 8 percent, you would get 7.8 or 7.9 percent.

I always thought those old drab clothes from 'Silk Stockings' were the worst things I wore.

Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

I expect my return to be 18 to 25 percent in 1988, while the Standard & Poor's 500 should rise 8 to 12 percent and OTC stocks gain 15 percent as liquidity emerges.

As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot take the risk of being seen to be wrong about the 'big picture' for very long.

Since we try and take a fairly buy-and-hold approach to our newsletter portfolios and don't sell at every whipsaw, we want to have a mix of stocks that will perform at both ends of the oscillation.

Here at Stoke, I cannot exert too much influence, simply because there is a lack of quality around me.

If you feel like you're wearing something that you're stoked on, I feel like it actually makes you want to skate better.

I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'

I don't care that much about stolen bases. So when I steal and a guy fouls a pitch off, for me it's not that frustrating.

I have stolen the show many times.

When you allow stolen bases, that changes the game.

Mark my words, even if I sell out a club of 15,000 with all girls, I'm not taking my shirt off. I'm sorry. I know y'all are waiting to see the pasty stomach and everything.

I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.

I try to eat a lot of carbs, especially the day of the game, because it fills you up. I have my breakfast and I have a huge lunch before I play. For me it's always having pasta and chicken to get some protein in me, so I don't play on an empty stomach at night. The day before a game it's high protein, mostly, with fish or steak, but nothing crazy.

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing.