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"Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears."
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"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."

"What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?"

"Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?"

"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

"A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts."

"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."

"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."

"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."

"You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance."

"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
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"That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do."

"They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic."

"I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen."

"I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame."

"Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it."

"When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team."
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