Performance

(27 votes)   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.

Barry Bonds
American Baseball Player

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(98 votes)   Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(84 votes)   Too aim is not enough, you must hit!

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(70 votes)   You can't rely just on talent to win.

Scott Young
American Hockey Player

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(66 votes)   Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

Daisetz T. Suzuki
1870-1966, Japanese Professor of Philosopher

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(61 votes)   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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(57 votes)   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.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
1823-1911, American Clergyman, Writer

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(55 votes)   Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

Sam Snead
1912-, American Golfer

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(54 votes)   We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.

Curtis Strange
1963-, American Golfer

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(53 votes)   You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.

Beano Cook

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(52 votes)   Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

James B. Connant

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(52 votes)   No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

Reggie Miller
American Baseball Player

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(51 votes)   How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Brian Tracy
American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman

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(48 votes)   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.

Spud Webb

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