Quotes About Performance

I'm one of those athletes, I compete better for coaches that I have a lot of love and respect for.

So I don't see any stress from players or coaches with coaching during the matches, to be honest.

That's what coaching is: It's watching film and putting guys in the best position.

Theater is the most challenging thing to do. It's just you out there with no rope. You can't call time out; you're on a roller coaster.

There's a roller coaster effect when you're playing good. Everything seems to go your way. But once you start playing bad, you're playing bad.

I adopted this feeling that the stage is my home, so just keep my coat on and not wear anything else.

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

I might be confident in what I do, and sometimes you can be cocky and confident because you know what your abilities are and you know what your car is going to give you.

People say I'm arrogant or cocky. You know what it is? I feel that I have a good chance to win ball games.

I've always liked code that runs fast.

Every show that I have been blessed to do I just get fun out of it like 'Girl Code/Guy Code'.

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' tour was incredible.

The first show I did with Coldplay was really scary.

It was amazing to work with a cast like Terence Howard and Colin Farrell.

I'd like to be a director who gives my actors complete freedom while collaborating with them to find performances.

I like collaborating with actors. I love finding that moment where it all comes together.

It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.

Everything I write in my show is a collaboration with a team.

I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.

There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great.

I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

I didn't expect to be so tired sometimes on stage. There are moments when you're so tired you could pretty much collapse.