Quotes About Performance

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

The average golfer doesn't play golf. He attacks it.

Feel free to aim for perfection. I like that in a commander and much prefer it to superiors who aim for perfection in their subordinates.

Of course, sir. There won't be any screwups. Hell, Colonel, there are always screwups in any operation. Let's just keep them within reason.

The world doesn't pay you for what you know; it pays you for what you do.

delivering a speech or presentation is like cooking a meal; as long as the chef is good the cuisine doesn't matter.

Like most of the special operations community, their physical training centered on useful strength, cardiovascular endurance, and durability, which, as both of them were pushing age forty, was increasingly important. Looking like a steroid-fueled bodybuilder was not part of the equation and was a liability in terms of both physical performance and blending into civilian populations. Their

Investors often make the mistake of equating manager performance in a given year with manager skill. In some instances, more skilled managers will underperform because they refuse to participate in market bubbles. In fact, during market bubbles, the best performers are often the most imprudent rather than the most skilled managers.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Although a Major League Baseball game lasts for around three hours, there is only around fifteen minutes of actual playing time.

Barry Manilow didn't write the song he sings called I Write the Songs.

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?"

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

They're talking about Kobe and how great it is that he's playing with the team. Well, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Now he's the savior because he's playing that way? He's no god. He does what he's supposed to be doing, which is what we learned in kindergarten. Share the ball and play. And that's what we do better than they do

I am persuaded that your people are foolish beyond any reasonable expectation. Not all of them. Obviously, there are many who are reasonable. Otherwise, you could never have reached this world. But the intelligence seems to be confined to a relatively few individuals. When your people come together as a group, they do not perform well.

When your people come together as a group, they do not perform well.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't--take two!

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

as the Charles Dickens formula for success has it: "Make them laugh. Make them cry. But, most of all, make them wait."6