Quotes about Consistent Performance

In my view, the key to becoming a successful NBA player is not learning the coolest highlight-reel moves. It's learning how to control your emotions and keep your mind focused on the game, how to play through pain, how to carve out your role on the team and perform it consistently, how to stay cool under pressure and maintain your equanimity after crushing losses or ecstatic wins.

When you have seven to eight players performing game after game, you are on an absolute roll.

You don't score 20 goals a season by accident!

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: 'when the generous promise, they perform

if you want to achieve consistent performance, you need both parts of a 20 Mile March: a lower bound and an upper bound, a hurdle that you jump over and a ceiling that you will not rise above, the ambition to achieve and the self-control to hold back.  

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

With my size and my athleticism, I should be at least double-digit rebounds every game.

You cannot play at your best and beat a top team one day and drop your level the next day.

I'm serviceable. I'm durable. I get the job done.

So long as I keep performing week in, week out for Everton, I will have the chance to stay England number one.

I gotta go out there and perform every night for my team to win.

I just want to go out there and play hard every night and do my best.

People have confidence in you. It's easy to have confidence in somebody that's going out there every night and giving the team a chance to win.

I just try to bring it every night in whatever way I can.

I am the kind of person who will give his best every single time. I cannot underperform unless I'm playing with kids. Actually, I'd probably still get angry if they try to hit me!

I just want to do the best I can every time.

Skills of proficiency are about doing a task the same way, every single time.

I don't think expectations will change as a player or as a captain. We have discussions and people who have played the game for long definitely express their views in a team meeting and I don't see that changing much. But the expectations would be to ensure that we are consistent.

Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but you'd never come away from it saying she was bad.

CHARACTER COMMUNICATES CONSISTENCY Leaders without inner strength can't be counted on day after day because their ability to perform changes constantly. NBA great Jerry West commented, "You can't get too much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good." If your people don't know what to expect from you as a leader, at some point they won't look to you for leadership.

Behavior that is rewarded is behavior that will continue.

I don't want to be a one-hit-wonder guy. I want to make sure that people say, 'You don't want to lay down bunts, because he's ready.'

It's always better for the bowlers to stick to a line and length, and that helps you get wickets.