Quotes About Consistency

If you don't score for a few games at Juve you are immediately under scrutiny.

I certainly wouldn't buy a DVD series of a hit show and start at Season 7. I would want to go back and start from the beginning.

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

If you want to be a top player you have to play well for the whole season and then ten more seasons, not just three or four games.

Seasons are 10 months long and what matters is to get to the last two to three months in your best form.

No, I don't play for a side who have transitional seasons.

You have to let the team develop. You can't say, 'Oh, I got empty seats, I'm going to change the team.' It just doesn't work that way.

I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's second nature at this point.

To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy.

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk.

There's a cafe in Mosman near where I lived and if I have any days off I go there at 10 in the morning with my notebook, sit in the same chair, order the same breakfast and coffee, write my thoughts down, and chat, have the same conversation with the owner.

Pace judgement is everything in the hour record. If you can ride 16.1 or 16.2-second laps constantly for 221 laps, and not go 15.9s or 16.4s, it's keeping it on the line every lap, lap after lap.

I've always enjoyed things going at a nice pace, nothing too fast, nothing too crazy.

I feel like pace is a huge part of being successful through preseason and then on into the season.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

If you go, go, go, you will get tired. So I had to learn to pace myself. I don't have a problem with five rounds now.

I can't stop, I always have to try and keep a good pace and that's what I'll do.

As a head coach, you're always concerned how you pace the team.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

I think there's something to be said about pacing yourself.

I wear the same thing every day. I always pack two black jackets, loads of black T-shirts, loads of white jeans. I feel a little fresh and glamorous and graphic.

I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

Write a page a day. It will add up.