Top 1200 Athletic Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I was always training for appearance rather than performance.

No actor wants to play someone else's performance.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

Just because you have a good athletic background doesn't make you necessarily a good wrestler. Because it takes a lot to be a good professional wrestler.

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

Before I signed with WWE, I thought my athletic career was done. I was going into the finance industry and I just thought I couldn't compete any more. But the mind is a really powerful thing and you can unlock your potential if you choose to ignore what your mind is telling you.

My first live performance was the lead in 'Peter Pan.'

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.

An actor should be judged by his performance only.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me.

He's coming up but he got bigger and stronger, that plus the athleticism. I'm going to have to show him that we're just as athletic in the middleweight division as [they are] in the welterweight division. I think he'll do good in the division but I'm glad I get to welcome him to middleweight.

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

I still get nervous before every performance.

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

I like to think I'm pretty close in comparison to Aaron Rodgers. He's very athletic and gets the ball out quickly. He's very knowledgeable of the game, controls the offense totally, and that's something I try to do. Just know the offense inside and out.

There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.

Quality is more than a promise, it's genuine performance.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

Possessing an array of athletic gifts is something most tennis players can only dream about. Most players, if they're lucky, have one attribute that stands out -- either a monster serve, great footspeed, superb touch, superior timing or innate feel for the ball.

Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

On the performance end, I take a lot of advice from my sister.

There are two categories of actresses: performance-oriented ones and glamourous ones.

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

You are inspired to give a better performance when there are good actors with you.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

Performance is one thing which has to be good because you're an actor.

Respect, recognition, and reward flow out of performance.

I want to be recognized for my performance as an athlete and not because of who I am.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

Guys like O.J. Simpson and Tony Dorsett can take the ball and run through the line, but I defy them to follow me over a 70-foot cliff or let a horse drag them a few hundred feet. Nobody can beat a stunt man for overall athletic ability.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.