Matt Besser Quotes

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

I've heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don't like that. Because I think I'm established now.

To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.

I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.

The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and the audience is nervous for the performers the whole time. Not that they don't even like the show, but they feel bad for the performers.

I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.

I can legitimately say without being arrogant that there's probably a stretch where I was one of the better teachers of improv in the country.

I'm not an improv guy. I'm not a nerd, I play one on television.

I guess, yeah. I've always loved improv. It's my thing. I really like it, but I also think it has to be done well.

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

It's so much harder to make a living off improv. Improv is so rarified and for such a specific audience.

If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

I put so much energy into with improv. You can only perform it at a place where people are, essentially, taking improv classes so that they just appreciate what's happening.

I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.

That was a f****g dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?!

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors

I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry for me instead of being happy for Rafa. Which hurts.

Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come out on top against one of the strongest guys physically that tennis had probably seen especially on this surface. So they would probably be the things that I would say I have learned tonight: To not doubt myself physically and mentally from now on.

Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.