Quotes About Performance

F1 is about the best drivers competing against each other for the best teams producing the best cars they can.

He crashed a dozen Cadillacs in one year and played the Apollo. With racial hatred burning in the headlines, the audience danced in the seats to a white boy from the bottomland, backed by pickers who talked like Ernest Tubb. "James Brown kissed me on my cheek," he says. "Top that.

Other studies have similarly revealed that to some degree, people rise or fall to the level of others' expectations.

Even if you become a very fine actor, if you are inordinately attached to your act, you will notice that you feel empty much of the time, for you will realize that the critics' acclaim and the loud applause from your audience are offered in response to your act rather than to the natural you.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

Don't Just Talk About What You can Do; Make It Happen!

On what will you be judged, the current difficulty, or the final result?

Whatever is happening in life, focus is the key to performance. Without it, you flounder.

if you get distracted from doing your job, you can't perform. And remember this—there is very little sympathy out there for people who cannot perform.

performance is your greatest ally in dealing with adversity, and focus is your greatest weapon in achieving that performance.

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

Don't mistake activity for achievement," John Wooden

A good shooter taking a great shot is better than a great shooter taking a bad one.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

My husband's car goes from zero to sixty in ten seconds, and that makes him happy. I just don't know why he'd ever want to do that. Maybe someday he'll find an open stretch of road and play Frisbee with himself.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation