Sarah Hay Quotes

The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

After I finished 'Center Stage,' I went back to San Francisco, and I danced for seven seasons with the San Francisco Ballet.

My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant.

I always feel that the mark of a good ballet is that when you see it more than once, you get more out of it.

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

'Swan Lake' can be a nightmare. To make a 'Swan Lake' that is worth it, every single movement and breath has to be perfect. When you have an idea of 'Swan Lake' that is as high as that, it's almost impossible.

I was a player in the Arena League, I was building relationships with that internship.

Usually when you put five girls together, especially when they've been solo artists, it doesn't turn out very well.

In any 'big science' enterprise, like planetary exploration, where you must work in big teams of similarly driven people, it is important also to know how to work alongside others even when they may be your fiercest competitors.

I think everybody wants everybody to be successful. There is that competitive nature, in a sense that everybody wants to be the best, but if A.J. Styles is more successful, and Braun Strowman is more successful, that makes the company more successful.

Playing in a team like Barca, you always feel pressure. The demand is to win everything, but this is good for you as a footballer: it makes you play better.

Playing in the German Bundesliga gave me the platform to excel in my football career.

In the U.S. system, too often the best player on an under-17 team will be treated like a 'star' - not having to work for the ball, being the focus of the offense at all times, etc. - at a time when they should be having to fight tooth and nail for their spot.

I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter, where you have your paint, and you have canvas, and you just go at it. I'm working with these living, breathing, functioning human beings, and they have their own thoughts and ideas about what works well movement-wise.

The Premier League is different to other leagues where I have played, and everybody knows it is very tough, but I will do my best to beat my own personal records - I'm very motivated.

When I played for Arsenal, like once per month, you always had this feeling you had to perform.

I just love being involved in the game and the high-pressure situations and it probably brings the best out of me.

A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else.

I think healthy competition is great, and I think WWE would agree.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.