Quotes About Performance

Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level.

Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Most leaders would agree that they'd be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

I've got to play in front of people. If I'm not moved, how can they be moved.

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Ideas without action are worthless.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.