Fallon Sherrock Quotes

You still have to go perform; it doesn't matter what the tournament is.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

It's very important to focus on the music first. That's always number one. But after that, it's extremely important to just have fun with what you're doing.

My thing has always been preparation. When I was a performer on the roster as one of the guys on a weekly, full-time schedule, I was always prepared.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go home. And I kind of like that. If you're really good, and you're the best guy in the room that day, you get the job.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

I was born to play baseball.

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.