Quotes About Performance

I'm not always trying to strike out guys. It just kind of happens sometimes.

But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

Strike rates depend on the surfaces you play on.

If there's a runner on third with less than two outs, I clearly do not want to strike out.

When you create pressure in the previous over for your partner to strike, it is sometimes as satisfying as picking up a wicket yourself.

Sometimes I have to try to remind myself that I don't try to strike out hitters.

I'm not trying to throw six or seven pitches just to be able to strike you out. I'm trying to do it in three or four. It's the homework and the process between starts that I really focus on to help me do that.

I'm not trying to strike everybody out.

What we need to do is strike the right balance in our teams for all three formats of the sport.

I'm not trying to strike them out, but there are certain situations, when it's an 0-2 count or a 1-2 count, when I want to have a pitch where I want to strike you out.

I think I can strike a balance in politics and acting.

I have been trying for years to perform in America. Now the first time I am here there is a strike. I must play. It is what I must do.

Once it gets to two strikes, it's time to battle, put something in play, and try to get the job done.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.

The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.

When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.

That's when I'm at my best. When I can throw a fastball over in the count, just throw strikes both in and away, it just sets up all my stuff.

As a fighter, I'm not one of those people that wants to prove I can go out and throw strikes.

I can throw strikes any time.

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.