Quotes About Performance

The performance demands that most people face in their everyday work environments dwarf those of any professional athletes we have ever trained.

Because the rest of us are evaluated more by what we do with our minds than with our bodies, we tend to discount the role that physical energy plays in performance. In most jobs, the physical body has been completely cut off from the performance equation. In reality, physical energy is the fundamental source of fuel, even if our work is almost completely sedentary.

We are machine-centered in our thinking—focused on the optimization of technology and equipment—rather than human-centered—focused on the optimization of human alertness and performance.

Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.

The more exacting the challenge, the more rigorous our rituals need to be.

We live in a world that celebrates work and activity, ignores renewal and recovery, and fails to recognize that both are necessary for sustained high performance.

Drinking water, we have found, is perhaps the most undervalued source of physical energy renewal.

Character is best thought of as existing in two distinct but related categories of competency – performance character competency and moral character competency. Performance character consists of specific acquired strengths usually necessary for high achievement and performance: focus, persistence, resilience, confidence, positivity, decisiveness, courage, tough-mindedness, ambition, reliability, discipline, fortitude.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

My father was a Filipino contortionist who was known as the Manilla Folder.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

You can often outperform what other people think of you, but you will never outperform what you think of yourself.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about–filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

I try all night to play a pretty note.

England produces the best fat actors.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny ' then fall asleep.