For me, the most important thing is to be part of the team and contribute to the club's success with my performances.
I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.
Personally, I take it really seriously and it bothers me when I don't play well.
Getting enough sleep makes us better family members, friends, lovers, drivers, writers, cooks, and pretty much everything else that is of importance in our lives.
Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfied with how I played.
I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.
Being your best can only enhance your personal performance.
I like to lead by people seeing me playing at certain level.
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.
I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.
It's not just about your name. It's about what you do for your team and your value on the defensive end of the court. That's all that matters.
When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.
I do my best; I go onto the pitch and I play to the best of my ability.
Everyone's going to have an opinion on the way I play the game, or things I've done.
I just got to try to go out there and let my game speak for itself.
I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
You want to put on a good performance for yourself.
For me, it's all just about playing my game.
I don't worry about my opponent or their game, I worry about my game.
My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.
I think my best spell in terms of personal performance was in 2004 - but the best team was under Mark Hughes with Elano.
For me, I want to be scoring goals. That's what I'm judged on, and that's what I judge myself on.
If I have 38 touches and we win the game, that's enough. If I have 38 touches and we lose, then I didn't get enough.
'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
