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Quotes About Performance

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
~ Nancy Lopez
Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.
~ John Kessel
An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.
~ John Kessel
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
~ Jim Sensenbrenner
Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.
~ John Leguizamo
I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.
~ Rick Astley
Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.
~ Steve Carlton
I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.
~ Sasha Cohen
I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.
~ Jonny Wilkinson
I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
~ Oleg Cassini
I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.
~ Kevin Costner
The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.
~ Sterling Marlin
New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.
~ Sparky Anderson
There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.
~ Viswanathan Anand
Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and the food took me down.
~ Leroy Loggins
Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.
~ Lindsey Vonn
Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.
~ Michael Wilbon
If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.
~ Michael Phelps
Less effort in this game makes more results.
~ John Kessel
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
~ Cathy Rigby