Quotes About Performance

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

I'm a big believer in the whole world of sports.

What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.