Quotes About Performance

The main thing for me - as a leader, anyway, is that you perform well. That's most of the battle.

It's nice when you can have that battle on the pitch and then there's respect after the game because, ultimately, you are just trying to do your best.

My dad and I would perform around the Bay Area where I'm from in California together, and I also did talent shows growing up, I loved it.

I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.

I'd guess that every American action film would be different. It's just training, training hard, training a lot. Then trying to give your best performance on the day, and I've been lucky so far.

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

Naturally, if I'm singing over really loud music, my approach is gonna be different than if I'm singing over some quiet acoustic music.

You're going to play good. You're going to play bad. But as long as I stay healthy, I should be happy. Every player should feel the same way.

I want to play well; only then can I be happy.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

If you aren't winning, we are not going to be happy.

It would be kind of cool to look at yourself in the mirror as you're having a match.

In my profession, people are never scared to be nice. They are in fact apprehensive about being critical.

You work throughout the week to be prepared for the matches you're called upon to play. If you train badly you go into the matches with doubts.

I have to be prepared always and be at my best. I looked to bat 50 overs and score as many possible. It may not happen all the time, but whenever I see the opportunity, I try to make the most of it.

Everyone has got to be prepared and ready to play when the manager calls on you.

I try to do my best in training and to get in shape and be prepared.

You've got to be more focused, especially starting and playing more minutes. You know the ball's going to be in your hand a lot so you've just got to be prepared for it.

A team has to be prepared for the various situations in the game.

As you get later into the season, you always have to be prepared for if a guy is up or down, and that's something we talk about constantly.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

I could always hit the ball really far, but you don't need to be strong to do that.

I don't believe any team to be strong in T20 matches.