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Quotes About Performance

Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.
~ Jacques Rogge
Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
~ Eric Stoltz
The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.
~ Cheng Fei
I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.
~ Oscar Peterson
I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
~ Aaron Sorkin
Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
~ A. W. Tillinghast
I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. When I took the Hellcats job I was like whoa, this is a sport. Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.
~ Ashley Tisdale
I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.
~ Bipasha Basu
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
~ Elia Kazan
I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.
~ Pau Gasol
All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.
~ Al Pacino
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
~ Jim Courier
Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.
~ Brian Tracy
With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
~ Micky Dolenz
When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.
~ Colin Meloy
When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.
~ Raine Maida
My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.
~ Leeza Gibbons
When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.
~ Michael Jordan
Clowns have no respect for pie.
~ Demetri Martin
The more they pay you the more they will respect you and enjoy your show.
~ Thomas Nelson Downs
They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
~ Bob Seger
I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.
~ Billy Magnussen
On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.
~ Hope Solo
I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field.
~ Hope Solo