Quotes About Performance

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

The team with the best players wins.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

Never play a thing the same way twice.

If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

You always succeed in producing a result.

Speak little, do much.

The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

My one goal when I started was not to actually vomit on TV or run away.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.