The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.
To work effectively in a film, you have to repeat and work consistently. Basically, you shoot a big master then you do close-ups. You're supposed to be in the same moment, the same 30-second moment, for a day.
I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.
If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.
I've been consistent in patches this season.
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.
You have to pay the same amount of detail regardless of opponent when so much is on the line.
Every night you have different match-ups, and you have 82 games, so physically you are going to get tired. You have to be ready mentally to bring your energy and bring the juice every night.
Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.
I don't want to be hitting one day then not hitting my shots the next day.
I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.
Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
In both snooker and poker, you have to play your best under pressure; I was always able to do that. I don't think it is something you can teach. Your mental strength, your confidence, your self-belief has got to be very strong. That is the common denominator.
It doesn't matter where Messi plays, if it's cold or hot, he always proves that he's the best.
I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.
When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.
A team like McLaren doesn't want to keep changing drivers at a time when they're developing the car. They want consistency.
Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.
I'm not going to make every shot. I'm not going to get every block. I can't let one play affect me the next two or three times down the court.
Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.
A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.
My aim, as always, is to deliver a good and consistent performance across the year. That is the goal for any driver.
I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.
My mentality's always the same, whether it's summer league, D-League, NBA, wherever it is.
