But he said he would keep performing at the Strip as long as he could keep making them laugh.
Many athletes who are jumping and soaring need help if they are going to keep performing at a level that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
The big challenge is to keep performing, at a very good, top European level, while having affordable tickets and deep roots in society.
To do this, he examines the lives of sportsmen and women whose fitness regime has allowed them to keep performing at the top level into their 30s.
"John is finding, as I did, that the upside of being off the international scene is that your body gets the rest it needs which allows you to keep performing at top-level well into your 30s.
Most wish for more money; many wish for an end to racial prejudice (Davis puts it most audaciously, declaring just one wish: "To be white!"); some wish for a properly widespread recognition of the art of jazz, for better performing conditions, or even, for the ability to keep performing at all.
When we meet at Las Rozas, the national training complex, Meléndez recalls: "They all rushed to me asking, 'How on earth can we keep performing at this level?' and I simply said, 'Don't worry, we have all the reinforcements ready and waiting in the wings'".
If he keeps performing at this level — he had 28 points and 14 assists in the Knicks' 104-97 victoverover the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday — he will become an N.B.A. star and could be the pied piper for young Chinese and Taiwanese athletes with N.B.A. aspirations.
If these players keep performing at the rate they will all collapse from exhaustion by January.
You won't have continued success and you won't keep performing at a high level.
I've learned that the more successful you are, the bigger a target you have on your back, and the more stress there is to keep performing at an increasingly high level.
