Quotes About Performance

If we can't handle pressure, we don't play football.

If you play football and fans are booing or saying negative stuff, it makes me play better.

My business is to come out here and play football.

I have been playing football since I was eight so I know how to play football. But no-one can really prepare you for the mental side of things and having 40,000 fans saying you're not a good player or you don't belong.

I'm going to play football, that's what I do.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.

People think I can really play golf, but it's actually been almost an albatross for me. I really struggle not only to break 80, but sometimes to break 90.

I invite a lot of my friends to some of the performances that I do locally, and some of them know that I'm involved with music, but they're not quite sure how. And so it's kind of fun to play golf with a lot of my friends and then invite them to hear me sing once in a while.

Most footballers play golf for five or six hours. I'd rather play my saxophone. I get out to gigs when I can.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about.

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.

I personally don't know what nerves are. I don't get scared when I'm going to play music. But I think something, maybe my fears, are buried into my songs. Because I'm singing them.

I just want to play music with a band, live.

I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.