Quotes About Performance

I like to try to play around 223, 220 pounds. It's a comfortable playing weight.

I had a lot of my success due to appearing at the Garden. I wrestled there over 200 times, it's where I won the title, and it's where I picked up 630-plus pounds of Haystacks Calhoun.

I've always been 6' 5', 230 pounds, and can throw the ball better than anybody. So I've always believed in myself and I'll continue to do that.

I lost 35 pounds before I did 'I, Tonya' and then I had to put it back on for that.

I want to play at 275 pounds.

Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.

I will get in the ring and pour my heart out. I'll do whatever it takes to make sure that when the Cruiserweight Classic is over, the one name on people's minds is Johnny Wrestling.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

If I'm just doing the sprints and not have such a massive program, I can really pour everything into it.

Fight night is when you see all our excitement and all our hard work pouring out.

Sometimes when you start improvising on stage, which I do a fair bit of, obviously you haven't planned it. But to be honest, it's not like I'm one of these blokes who is sitting at home pouring it all out and then does a different thing on stage.

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters.

I really enjoyed doing Albee's 'The Goat.' It's a powerful piece and a really exciting play to do.

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

I consider it, the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me.

I'm a good listener, and I take into consideration everything people tell me, but at the same time, I believe my eyes as well as the experience I had as a player. So players who underperform? There has to be a reason why... my job is for them to perform.

I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic.

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

Most players in this league say they want consistency.