Quotes about "Sports & Competition"

Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition. ”

I found ways to maintain my performance through working with professionals and doing things that other people weren't doing. Later in my career, I had a great physical therapist who kept me out on the track. We were doing innovative things like ice baths back in the early '80s when everyone else thought it was crazy. ”

Some days you really don't feel like racing and you have a great performance, some days you feel great and you have a mediocre performance. ”

In any competitive environment, whether you're in sales or marketing or whatever it is, you have to know your competition, understand who they are, do intelligent analysis on them and then you have to know yourself - who you are and what you're capable of doing. ”

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition. ”

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning. ”

A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing. ”

I've always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances. ”

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. ”

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words. ”