Quotes About Consistency

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

People might not believe me if I say I get nervous, but I tend to practice constantly to show a balanced performance.

I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.

I feel like I've got a process swing. It takes a long time to get to where it needs to be and to stay there. The advantage - if I'm healthy - more often than not, it tends to stay there.

My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.

After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.

I think my progression with tennis has been pretty steady.

Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.

I've tried to dial my emotions down: not get too high, not get too low, try to find that even-keel tennis.

One of the biggest things I've worked on is how to play my best tennis every single time I walk on to the court.

Every time I go out onto a tennis court, I know what to expect.

As a tennis player, normally you lose almost every week.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.

You may not be the best at one thing.You may not be the strongest or the fastest, but you're also not going to be terrible at something. You practice everything.

We've been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We're not terribly prolific.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

In terms of CBS, I think that the consistency for them, it feels like they have a really clear sense of who they are and what they want, and they're able to keep delivering very consistently on their brand, which is really terrific, and I think NBC has taken some really smart and interesting routes in the things that they've done.

Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.

You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.

I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.