I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
World records are only borrowed.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.
No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.
You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
Forget about style; worry about results.
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.
Too aim is not enough, you must hit!
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
I don't play small. You have to go out and play with what you have. I admit I used to want to be tall. But I made it in high school, college, and now the pros. So it doesn't matter.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
You can't rely just on talent to win.