Quotes About Performance

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Measure yourself by...what you have accomplished with your ability

The goal in life is just the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That's what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.

Don't mistake activity for achievement. To produce results, tasks must be well organized and properly executed; otherwise, it's no different from children running around the playground—everybody is doing something, but nothing is being done; lots of activity, no achievement.

Coach Wooden never mentioned winning. It was always, "Fellas, we've got to play to our best. Let's do that." That's a lot different from saying, "Fellas, we've got to win." A lot different.

Competitiveness must be focused exclusively on the process of what you are doing rather than the result of that effort (the so-called winning or losing).

Succeeding is performing at your best when your best is required

If any one premise typifies my teams in all the years I've coached, it is this concept. Often as a player, I'd tell myself, I may play someone better than I am, but I'll never run against one who is going to be in better condition And I never played against a man in my life I felt was in better shape, and Lambert often cited me as an example of top conditioning.

Ninety percent of the time, the game is going to be decided in the final five minutes. When two teams are evenly matched, the better conditioned team will usually execute better when fatigue set sin, and will probably win.

Seek Players Who Will Make the Best Team Rather Than the Best Players.

Whether in basketball or business, you must be able to perform all aspects of your job, not just part of it. You must be able to "get open" and "shoot." One without the other makes you a partial performer, someone who can be replaced because your skills are incomplete.

Remember That a Great Quarter in Basketball or Business Starts with a Great Minute.

Never mistake mere activity for accomplishment

And that, in my opinion, is the first goal of leadership—namely, getting the very best out of the people in your organization, whether they have talent to spare or are spare on talent.

I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We are in the education business. Whether in class or on the court, my job was the same: to effectively teach those under my supervision how they could perform to the best of their ability in ways that best served the goals of our team. I believe the same is true for productive leaders in any organization.

I prize intensity and fear emotionalism. Consistency in high performance and production is a trademark of effective and successful organizations and those who lead them. Emotionalism destroys consistency. A leader who is ruled by emotions, whose temperament is mercurial, produces a team whose trademark is the roller coaster—ups and downs in performance; unpredictability and un-dependability in effort and concentration; one day good, the next day bad.

The spotlight is a demanding place, Fan. I have always found the shadows to be much more amenable.

The orchestra concludes to a merry burst of applause and the orchestra slides into a waltz—a much-needed chance for the dancers to catch their breath, perhaps even an opportunity for the whispering of urgent secrets and tender promises...

we have more efficient, more focused, and more effective ways of achieving the ends we want.

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.