Joanna Jedrzejczyk Quotes

Fitness is also something I have worked on, especially because I know I have to bowl a lot more if I want to play for the country.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

Performing live was something that I had to really work at.

To be free on stage, you need to have been disciplined.

It isn't easy to create a dance show, and it's different from choreographing for films... You need a lot of stamina and practice.

When you don't play, you really feel the difference of what matches give you. The match-sharpness, the fitness. It's what you need to progress.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

I run the most for every team that I play for. That's because I ran so much when I was younger.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

I never stop working when I'm on stage, and that's my fitness.

If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

I can run a good few miles. I box a little.

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

I auditioned at the Radisson in Knoxville, and I just did what I always do. I just try to believe what I'm doing.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

I really didn't realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You're like an athlete - if you haven't been practising things tighten up. I had to do a lot of practice work, but I got through it. Even when I was 21 I would have a 40-minute nap on the day of a show, and I will still do that.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.