Quotes About Performance

All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.

I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Remember at all times that you're the one who'll be judged by the final product.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

I agreed to do it, but the night the show was opening, March 12, 1998, was the coldest

A couple of weeks later, the play was produced at the Fox Theatre, with more than 4,500 seats, and it sold out—two shows.

Studies have shown that women who are perceived as more attractive make 5 percent more at work and even get higher grades in school.

Great dancers aren't great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

Golf is a sport in which the ball lies poorly but the player well

Second place is the first loser.

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

The world pins no medals on you because of what you know, but it may crown you with glory and riches for what you do.

Remember that it is the combination of talents of the director and the actor which produce a perfect performance - and since both of them are you, you just cannot go wrong !

Opera singers hardly ever got to slay dragons.

O Raghava, be outwardly active but inwardly inactive, outwardly a doer but inwardly a non-doer, and thus play your part in the world.

Humans can tolerate considerable temporary dehydration providing that we rehydrate in a day or so. In fact, the best marathon runners drink only about 200 milliliters per hour during a race.

There was no trick or stunt that he couldn't accomplish with the greatest of ease; we had balancing stunts and all that jazz — nothing he couldn't do. He had absolute unerring control over his body.

You are acting, not being." Strasberg explained, "I stress the difference between the actor who thinks acting is an imitation of life, and the actor who feels acting is living

He could sing in more different keys during the course of one song than anybody I've ever heard,

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.