Performance Failure Quotes

I find it very difficult when, due to a lack of confidence, I don't produce and lose matches I could have won.

Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.

This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

If you're a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.

My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.

Last year I was the favorite going into the world champs in Beijing, but I felt like I had to do something phenomenal in order to win. Instead of just having fun and competing, it became "I want to win so bad." But the person who wants it the most doesn't win. It's the person who executes. I still look back on that 200-meter race and say what the hell happened? I wasn't hurt, I wasn't sick, the conditions were perfect, and I ran like total crap.

I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.

A lot of actors flame out.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I can't think of any actor who doesn't have a flop in his career.

Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt more than people realise.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

Marie Cornelie Falcon, who lost her voice while performing - singing the line 'Je suis pret' - 'I am ready.' How much more tragic can you get?

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

Ashlee Simpson kicking her dressing room door after getting caught lip-synching - that was interesting to watch.

When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.