Quotes About Performance

You have to kind of sustain a level of performance in the Championship to be able to come out of it at the end of the season.

No one had told us that in L.A. we would get only American food. I had no choice but to eat rice porridge without any nutrition supplement, and that definitely affected my performance in the last 35 meters of my event since I couldn't sustain the energy level.

Being able to sustain a certain level of play is important for individuals and teams.

I truly believe that the combination of a strong top line together with a strong bottom line is what makes for a sustainable business.

A good coach will come in ra, ra, ra and rejig the whole set-up. That might work for a year or 18 months but isn't sustainable. A great coach has the ability to get the best out of his players without the ra, ra, ra stuff.

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

If the audience is screaming, I don't really care. As long as it's loud and sustained, I don't care who they're screaming for or what they're screaming for. It's when they get quiet, that's when I get nervous.

I have some star status. But I don't have that sustained success rate.

It feels good to go out and execute the game plan, have some fun, have some long sustained drives and convert third downs.

I eat a light but sustaining dinner before the show: a bunch of greens and some non-gluten quinoa or rice. I'll have a snack at intermission. I'm trying so hard not to have meals after the show because it's so late, but sometimes I just want a big bowl of pasta.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.

We always have great practices, and the competition is high, and the intensity is high; it's just about doing that now in a game and sustaining it for 48 minutes.

Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off of the note as soon as I could.

I realized there's a difference between creating a character and sustaining a character. The challenge that comes with sustaining a character is that you have this sudden impulse to think about all the things the audience liked.

Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger.

The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.

Women politicians tend to lead by being accountable for results. We focus on goals and outcomes. You can't get by on just swagger.

The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general - you're all kinda competing for who's got the most swagger.

As cool as Jack Swagger was, he felt choreographed.

When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?'

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.