Quotes About Performance

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

How can a president not be an actor?

You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

Life isn't a dress rehearsal

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.