Quotes About Performance

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

I am simply the very best sports entertainer

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Bodybuilding is not only a sport but first an ART.

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.