Quotes About Performance

I think the best publicity I can get for my music is to conduct it.

When I was playing and playing real well I didn't get any publicity.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

I started publicly singing when I was eight. Singing was always what I did. I never really acted.

At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men's clubs, where you wouldn't expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.

I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

When I left school, I went and bought my own sound system, and me and my dad would just go along to all the pubs and clubs around the local area and just sort of do our own little cover shows.

After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs and restaurants, and I played four nights a week to make ends meet.

I'd been gigging since I was 14, doing little competitions and pubs and clubs and old people's homes.

Irish music in the local pubs was my first exposure to musical expression, and I feel like Irish music is very close to musical theater because it is always telling a story.

Sometimes the pass is perfect, but you can't shoot the puck. Sometimes it's a bad pass and you do a good shot.

I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

Sometimes when you start playing games you don't get as many practices and you don't get as many touches. People think you have the puck the whole time during a game - you really don't.

Every time I have a chance I'm going to make a pass to one of my players in practice. Every time I have a chance I'm going to clear the puck just to see how far I'm going to be able to shoot it.

I just try to do my best to shoot the puck and we'll see what's going to happen with it.

I think a lot of times what practice can do for you when guys are playing a lot of minutes, it sometimes takes away a little bit of their sharpness, because they have the puck a lot and all that.

It's just part of me, playing the puck.

For me, I just got to focus on my job. I just got to find ways to stop the puck and keep our guys in it until we bury the puck.

It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.

I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico.

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

A Home Run Derby is fun. It's just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, there's a little more pressure when they pull that cage back, but if you practice properly, it shouldn't affect the second half of your season at all.