Rick Scott Quotes

Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.

If there's competition in training, then the training is intense, and then you have the pressure of a weekend that if you don't put in good performances, then your place is maybe up for grabs.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

My liking for a team isn't based on just how good it was, but how good was it in relation to how good it should have been.

You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.

In big clubs, you always have competitions for places.

You still have to go perform; it doesn't matter what the tournament is.

When I used to play, the manager would tell us that you are as good as your last performance. That made all the players more hungry to finish strong.

I always need a reason to do something on stage, for me. I am not judging anyone: there is not a good way; there is not a bad way. You just have to justify everything.

I never look at scores or anything.

The one thing I made a point of doing, when we were sat with the producers rehearsing, is I'd never see the answers.

There's always a pressure on performing the best.

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

You want to go out every week and win - that's our job - and when you don't do that for a few games on the trot it starts to eat away at you, no matter who you are.

I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.

If you have expectations as a club, then coping with criticism is part of your job.

You have to earn your job every day.

Sometimes a manager can only do so much, as in prepare a team, and then the team have to go out there and perform.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.

I put pressure on myself and feel pressure from my fans to not only win but to look great doing it.

Every moment, every practice, every game, everywhere; I just love competing. Competition is in my DNA.