Performance Quotes

You can't get too excited when you do a good performance or too down when you do a bad one, you have to stay emotionally level, and that is harder at a home Games. Her mind will be the main thing.

She did that very well - she did a bad performance on the first day and it didn't affect her at all.

I am saying 40% of people in sports are still using performance (enhancing drugs). I think that based on past experiences I have had. It is not only track and field, there are soccer players, football players, basketball players, cyclists and you would be surprised that some of the great players are doing stuff.

If we don't see performance, we'll call it a bad idea. Our metrics process is an ongoing evolution.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Even though I did not have my best performance today I kept a good fighting spirit.

It's not a sexual thing. It's about the performance.

The company's performance was outstanding, reflecting continued strength across the industry.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

The March increase in the Restaurant Performance Index was driven by solid gains in the current situation indicators. Nearly two-thirds of restaurant operators reported a same-store sales gain in March -- the strongest performance in 15 months. Restaurant operators also reported increased capital expenditure activity, which bodes well for both the restaurant industry and the overall economy.

Sometimes we run into bad weather or just tired legs. It's easy to get worked up over a bad performance. But with track and field, the weekly meets are more like glorified practices.

My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

We are still learning and constantly experimenting with various sprinting techniques to see what can provide the best performance.

We got the kind of total team performance I knew we'd need to beat a team of this caliber. ... To come out and get a win in one the best environments in college baseball, that says a lot about our team right now. We need to work hard to finish a series if we want to get to the next level. But I'll go home happy this weekend.

When you're sleep-deprived, you're prone to performance problems. It affects your decision-making, how crisp you are in dealing with things, what your mood is. Sleep needs to be a priority.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.