Quotes About Performance

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.

I'm not into sports. I mean...I like Gatorade, but that's as far as it goes.

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

Steroids are used in all sports.

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it.

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

I want to do my best to make the people happy. I play with my heart for the sport.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.