Top 1200 Athletic Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.

I'm naturally athletic. I've been involved in sports since I could walk. So, for me to be sedentary is just unacceptable. Not only is it great for your physical body, but it gives me more energy during the day if I've worked out. I feel better. I look better.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

I wake up, and I'm in the zone... My performance is the continuation of my life.

I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.

I loved Jennifer Lawrence's performance in 'Winter's Bone.'

When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

I love competing in front of a crowd. I enjoy the performance.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don't make an aggressive move. You'd be surprised how much better your swing will get if you let your natural athletic ability shine. So go after it.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

I sell out shows. My performance is top-tier.

There is nothing like getting a performance-oriented role.

He [Charlie Chaplin] was always playing as if it were to the camera, if you've seen the live shots of him when he's going to an opening night or something like that. And the skills that he had were beyond my ability to throw together. You just couldn't really compete with him. He was too athletic at that.

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.

Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would think it wrong to edit the genes that influence the 'normal' range of human variation, from eye colour to intelligence or athletic ability.

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

We were very athletic growing up. My dad basically trained us like boys when we were little, so being able to physically challenge myself and to be able to do crazy stunts and not use my stunt double was super exciting for me.

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

I'm not the fastest, not the most athletic, but I learned how to play the right way. I learned how to be a professional. I learned how to win and how to be a team-first guy.

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

I can never focus on a film because I'm conscious of my performance.

My acting, writing, performance - keep me on my toes.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

Good performance is about what you take in, not what you put out.

'Chandi' was received well and my performance was particularly appreciated.

Positive attitude plus effort equals performance.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

Music and football are two industries where black people excel, because talent is undeniable. You can't deny an amazing voice. You can't deny amazing athletic prowess. Physically, it's evident. But in other industries, circumstance is more of a thing.

I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.

I'm not the most athletic gal, but because making a movie is very physical, I slow down on the Krispy Kreme and Ice Blendeds. I start to get leaner and more focused - like I'm going into a boxing match - because I'm about to really try to put this idea on its feet.

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

Even one player's performance can affect the entire team.

Good performance in government was never Imran's target.

I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish kids I admired Sandy Koufax. But I didn't look up to him as the one person who gave me the desire to push on and succeed. My brothers did that for me.

Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.

The White House is now essentially a TV performance.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Any sort of performance was always what I was really born to do.

I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.

Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

George Burns was more athletic than you think he was. And he was a very social man. He loved people, he enjoyed life. He worked at living. Old George was a social lion, he got around and did things. That's the key right there. It starts with your brain.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

I double-majored in Political Studies and Theatre & Performance.