Performance Drive Quotes

You look at someone like Neil Wagner - he's got a big heart, a big engine, and keeps running. And that's what you want, you want guys who, time and time again, want to be putting themselves in that position, to keep wanting to create chances and keep trying to change the game.

Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.

I have always and will continue to put myself in the mix at the end of every tournament. That's what I play for.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

If I feel the role is not going to demand anything out of me, I don't do it. Either it has to be a terrific role, or the director has to be someone I am dying to work with. Or the costar has to be someone I really look up to.

There's always pressure but I change that pressure into motivation.

I've always got the itch to play. I don't like sitting out too long.

I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before.

I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that's what I need; that's what I'm hooked on.

I've wanted to act since I was seven. The year before, I'd been a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz' and was overcome with terror. The next year I just watched. My sister was in 'The Little Mermaid' and I had this deep knowing that I needed to be there on stage, not in the audience.

I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.

I show up to win. I don't show up to hurt a guy. I don't show up with emotion.

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.

I just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.

When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.

I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.

I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

Oh, I get pretty fired up on the court. I try to play with a lot of emotion, especially when I'm playing in front of a large crowd. I want to go out and do my best, and to do that, I have to play with the most energy possible.

I play the game hard; I play the game with an edge.

The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

If someone gets into the Super Bowl, should they stop trying to get back into the Super Bowl? You gotta be kidding me.

My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.