Performance Peak Quotes

The difference between the good players and the great is how long they stay in their prime.

When you win a Grand Prix, it's the culmination of everything coming together. Not just trackside, but behind the scenes.

There is too much cricket being played. You need time away to get your mind in order to reach the optimum level.

When I see the ball going in the hole, I'm a completely different player.

I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.

One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.

I was talking to my mom one time, like, "Gosh, I'm 30." And she's like, "In your thirties you're even stronger than in your twenties." I didn't believe her, but I have played better in my thirties.

You can only stay at a high level so long before you need to rest your body.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

You want to be ramping up toward the playoffs. You want to be peaking as you're heading in.

My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.

If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

August is the time when I can feel myself getting stronger as a comedian. I'm at the height of my powers come September.

I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I'm always best on the very first take.

I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.

I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.

You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament.

As an actor, you have to maximize your time, because you don't know what's going to happen in your 50s and 60s and 70s. It's like the career of an athlete: For many people, it ends at a certain point.

Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.

Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.

When you're no longer seeing yourself, in some ways. You're as close to being as you can be.I suppose that's consistent with the moment that the mind actually turns off, and is no longer questioning what you're doing. When the questions stop, that's when the real acting takes over. And trying to get to the point where the questions stop, "Would I do this? How do I feel about that as a character?" When those stop, and it's just doing X, Y, and zed, because that's what you'd do as this character, because you're inside this character somehow - that's when it really kicks off.