Quotes About Performance

All sportsmen have superstitions, or at least they have routines. You look at Rafa Nadal and the way he organises his water bottles. Me, I always put my left pad and left shoe on first.

I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.

I'm not superstitious or anything, there's nothing I do over and over. I do pray before every game, but other than that there's nothing really that I do consistently every game that's a ritual.

Maybe I'm a bit superstitious, but I don't like to talk about anything until I've done it.

I don't agree with superstitious routines, but there are a couple of things I'll always do before performing. I'll get together with the band and chill out, and then, just before I go on stage, I'll always check my flies.

We actors are an especially superstitious lot.

Before competition, I always take an ice bath to make my body feel more refreshed. Then I always have coffee with a little cream and sugar. It's a superstitious thing.

I get superstitious. I always have to have some form of potato, either chips or mashed potato or roast potatoes on a show day.

We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.

I'm not super superstitious, but if I listen to a song and then I do well, then that becomes my song for however long it works for.

I'm kind of superstitious. If I miss a game or practice, I think I will play bad the next day.

My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was born.

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

There are all kinds of pretensions about art, but I'm just a guy who sings for his supper.

I'm not having any problems with my body so I don't need to supplement. Growing older you don't recover as fast, but all-in-all I'm doing well.

What has happened is just cases of athletes neglecting to correctly check the supplement they've had. It's not like they are deliberately or intentionally cheating.

It's important to remember that because these athletes exercise so beyond what even a normal active person would, they generally must also supplement their diet.

An athlete is responsible whatever she takes - be it food supplement or whatever.

I take protein and amino acid supplements, but I honestly don't know if they do anything.

Going back to the '70s and '80s I was one of the athletes who believed in true sport. I never took medical supplements, believed in diet and exercising. I always represent clean athletes.

I supply a presence. There are never any long dialogue scenes to establish a character.

There aren't 32 of them in the world that I think can be quarterbacks of Super Bowl champion teams. Supply is short.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

There have been moments when I was physically strained, but I have overcome the hardships by staging performances and receiving support from our members and fans.