Performance Drop Quotes

Obviously, in a sport like golf, we see Tiger Woods fall off. There's not really too much damage he can take from that, although when you watch him and he sucks, and you're like, 'God, you used to be so good but you suck now,' it's disconcerting as a fan.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

I was on my way to becoming a Hall of Famer and having my name in the rafters, but three surgeries in 14 months, that is not good. I wasn't the same player.

I'm not the same fighter I used to be.

In college, I probably lost a total of about 11 games, and then I came to the Celtics and in my first three weeks we went on a nine-game losing streak.

I remember being 32 years old and feeling great, better than ever physically. Then at 33, I tore my shoulder and was out for eight months, and it was like I fell off a cliff. I was never the same.

Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that time.

The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.

What happens when you have to use your top guys so much, they're going to hit a wall at some point, and they'll go four or five games where they just don't have the juice to play at the level that you need, and therefore your team suffers a little bit.

World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.

Just because a player drops down a division, it doesn't mean he's turned into a bad player overnight and isn't good enough for England.

I was playing good tennis up until 100.

Every team goes through a lean patch.

I've had such a tough time making weight at 155 all the time. I'd make the weight, but I don't feel like the same kind of Sage. My power in my punches, my explosion, my speed - it just doesn't feel the same.

I went from being very athletic, one of the best guards in the NBA, to barely making it. No speed, no agility. I had to change how I played because I couldn't exercise or train because my knee constantly hurt.

Guys get... benched, replaced. They get injured; another guy comes in and becomes the starter. That happens all the time.

Look how successful Eddie Jones was, then all of a sudden a training camp is wrong and it's his fault. The same with Stuart Lancaster.

I went from being one of the best players, batting .550, to not being able to do it mentally, hitting .200. I thought I was mentally tough. But I couldn't hit the ball.

When you blink, you're on the back end of your career.

I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.

The frustrating part is knowing that you've done it before, knowing that you can play, but then your game starts going down the wrong path and you lose confidence. It's so easy to just start slipping away.

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

You can't have two or three games where you let your level drop.

You don't want to let your form slip because it can be hard to get back from that.

I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality.