Quotes about Performance

“World records are only borrowed.”

“Too aim is not enough, you must hit!”

“Wise to resolve, patient to perform.”

“You can't rely just on talent to win.”

“Forget about style; worry about results.”

“We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.”

“How much we like ourselves governs our performance.”

“No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.”

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

“Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.”

“One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.”

“Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.”

“Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.”

“We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.”

“The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.”

“I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.”

“Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.”

“I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.”

“If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.”

“The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.”

“There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.”

“Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.”

“You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.”

“If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.”

“You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.”

“Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.”

“I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.”

“You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.”

“Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.”

“I don't play small. You have to go out and play with what you have. I admit I used to want to be tall. But I made it in high school, college, and now the pros. So it doesn't matter.”