Quotes About Performance

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport.

Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

What I always say is, "Look good, feel good, play good."

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.