Quotes About Performance

You can be a guy who won 18 majors, but that doesn't mean you'll be a great Ryder Cupper. That's the rarest golf there is.

I think of myself as rarity in the business, and one of the reasons is that I wrestled my entire career as a baby face.

There are players like that - you know they have been rascals, and that you can bring them in, give them a new environment and get a length of time out of them, but they will always return to type. You can get something out of them, then you have to get rid of them.

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat!

There's a picture of me at 3 years old playing the baby rat in 'The Pied Piper.'

I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy clubs.

I think we're paid a going rate for how well our shows do.

I rate 'Naan Thaan Bala' as one of the best performances of my career. It was a rare feat, perhaps in Indian cinema, that a popular comedian played the lead role in a film that didn't have even a tinge of humour.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

It's not my job to rate managers. My focus is on me and my team.

Kieran Tierney's work rate is just amazing. He gives 100 percent in every game, he makes lots of runs and makes lots of assists too. He defends, he goes forward, he is every inch the modern left back.

Most people can't say they put the ball in at a high rate each and every night. So that's my number one goal: putting the ball in, doing it a high rate, and doing it efficiently.

When I was running as an athlete, I'd be looking at my heart rate, monitoring when it started to peak, when it plateaued. I'd make a note of the oxygen debt in my body and would always be working to a specific time.

We're not getting judged or rated by just our fighting ability. People want to watch guys who are flamboyant and have something to say, and that's just the nature of the fight game and the game we're in. I get it.

I don't know where I'm rated. I don't pay attention to that. I'm really so just all into my craft. It's not a contest. I try to play the best.

Our chips keep getting faster, and our data rates keep climbing, but at the end of the day - or worse, by mid-afternoon - those power meters on our screens inevitably turn to red.

All of us have to win games. Whether we like it or not, the graduation rates and all the things people are talking about aren't as important as winning.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

I'd rather be real in the ring then someone who is trying to play a character.