Performance Edge Quotes

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.

I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.

Nowadays, the difference between athletes is really small, and if you can get an edge, why not take it.

I think if you don't touch the wall in Monaco, you're not on the limit.

Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge.

Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

Look at how a caretaker has worked for the England rugby team in the Six Nations - they've done fantastically. Everyone's got an edge. No one's sure of a place, and everyone has an incentive. So I'd back the FA if they decided not to go for a full-time manager yet.

Whoever is in the best shape, whoever has put in the most work in the offseason is going to have a little bit of an edge, especially the first few games.

And, for any performer, to be able to go deep into character is fantastic. In film you only get to do that if you're the leading character. But in television you get 18 hours to really test the audience and take them to the edge of how far they will go with this character. I can step over this line and I love that.

To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli.

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.

That's the biggest part of our sport, is self-confidence, and self-belief.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

Sometimes a minute is really the difference between success and failure. There are times when you finish with ten seconds left, and one extra minute could've meant everything. You almost have to think of it as a sporting-event type of atmosphere: A football game is sixty minutes long. Think of how many games could be won or lost if the team had one more minute?

That's what I enjoy, always driving on the limit of what you can do.

Motorsport is all about gaining as much of an advantage as you can and the FIA are there to make sure I don't gain an advantage over my competitors.

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

In a sport that's as close as tennis, I feel like anything that you can do to give yourself an edge is definitely worth doing.

The Hardys were a huge influence on me becoming a wrestler. Not so much the moves themselves, but the concepts behind the moves: trying to be innovative and just being exciting.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.