Quotes About Performance

Because he did have that gift, truly he did, he was the Man of a Thousand Voices and a Voice. If you wanted to know how your ketchup bottle should talk in its television commercial, if you were unsure as to the ideal voice for your packet of garlic-flavoured crisps, he was your very man. He made carpets speak in warehouse advertisements, he did celebrity impersonations, baked beans, frozen peas.

And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

It would seem that very few good things in life come from our accepting the present moment as it is. To become educated, we must be motivated to learn. To master a sport requires that we continually improve our performance and overcome our resistance to physical exertion. To

Play him, fine him, and play him again.

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

I am confident of doing well because I am enjoying my sport again.

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings

Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do.

There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

Professional competitions are overrated.

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.