Quotes About Performance

I'm horrendous at dancing but I think if you do 'Strictly', you go on to another level, and that's a level I have never been at.

'Strictly' is feel-good escapism.

You only do 'Strictly' once, and I don't want to have to worry about competing with Harry Judd!

The goal is to hit your stride, stay in the hunt and be playing your best football in December.

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.

So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.

The Houston team I was on - we were just rolling. We just hit the right stride at the right moment. And the Lakers team, we were rolling again.

If you get a few successive games you are going to get in to your stride and once you start playing more you get more confidence and then you can push on.

We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.

You want to hit full strides going into the first game and maintain it.

If you see Michael Johnson running a race, and he beats someone by three strides, that's really dominating, but it's beautiful.

If you strike out or look bad on the field, we'd get on each other. If you can't take the heat, you gotta get out of the kitchen.

My mother would strike me off if I didn't say theatre was incredibly important, and when you see something like 'Network' at the National Theatre, my god it's important. You feel like you can't breathe.

Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.

When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.

Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

I want to strike out less than 20 times.

If I am playing 18 ball, I aim to see how I can get my strike rate to 150-160. After 6-14 overs, you need to break down, that if you play half balls, then how much runs you need to get on the board.

When I was growing up, I played a lot of ten- and 12-over games, and I would bat in the middle order. I got only ten-odd balls to face, and I tried to score as much as I could. I applied the same approach in domestic and international cricket, and people were appreciating my strike rate being more than 80 or 90 in Test cricket.

I've been able to throw it for a strike, which has helped. If I'm not able to do that, I'm not going to have success with it.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

Obviously, when I go in at No. 11 it stands to reason that we will have a better chance of scoring runs or batting out time if the batsman at the other end takes most of the strike. That's because, as my place in the order suggests, he is a better batsman than me.