Quotes About Performance

In the regular season, they all only count for one win or one loss. But for a team or coaching staff, these are tests, and you want to see where you're at.

I have batted well in Tests and always wanted to do well in ODIs, too.

An all-rounder in Tests and limited-overs' cricket is equally important.

I loved playing at Lord's - I ended up with 26 wickets at 11.50 from three Tests there. Maybe the wicket, because of the slope, was perfect for my style of bowling.

It's not an issue for me if I captain England in 42 Tests or in 50. It's a question of what is best for the team in Test and one-day cricket.

As an opener, your mindset has to be different. When you need to open in Tests, you might get out in the first 10 balls.

England are doing really well in the Tests and ODIs, they're doing well in everything and I think it will be hard to squeeze my way into the team.

Test cricket tests you physically and skill-wise, but also mentally. And you have to be solid on all three to do well.

I wish I'd done better for England. I only played three Tests and three One Day internationals. You have to take your chances and, for whatever reason, I didn't.

I don't want my children to feel the same sense of failure I did growing up because they're not good at passing tests.

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.

I did karate for about three years. When I was going into Miss Texas, my mom said, 'Let's not do karate this year. Let's not have any knocked-out teeth on the stage.'

When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.

I love watching live music. It's one of the reasons I love living in Austin, Texas, because there is so much live music.

We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.

Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost.

When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

I was 14, and I played this club that's no longer there because it was poorly managed: the Texas Tea House in Fort Worth.

If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words.

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.