Performance Gap Quotes

When we look at really good high-performing companies abroad, they are always at the back of an extremely high-performing board, and that is something which is very lacking in this country.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.

Sometimes a player can look like a million bucks on tape, but in real life, the kid can't play a lick.

We need to make sure F1 stays the quickest category of all, and GP2 is not that far away, so that's a little bit worrying.

Training and playing are different things. I've noticed it. If you come in and you realise after six minutes that it is tiring, then that is a clear difference to training.

The teams that you come across, they are not physically super-human, they are just very good. So it is asking what do we about that. How do we take on the challenge?

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

There comes a point in every season for every team that you start to separate yourself, and you see the league do that every year.

The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.

We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.

When I'm practising on my own, my game feels great, but there's a big difference between practising on your own and playing against people.

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.

We have three kinds of guys on our team. We have guys that get it; they play good; they understand how to play winning football. We have some guys that are trying to get it, and they are working hard every day? We are supporting them, and we want the guys that have it to support them. Then we have some guys that don't get it and don't know that they don't get it. We are trying to replace them. We only have a couple left.

If there are differences in the race pace it is normally because the tyre is overheating on my side.

There's the hardest thing - when you cannot be as athletic or perform at a level you really want to. Your mind is telling you, but your body is not allowing you.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

On paper we might be the best team in the league. We’ve got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn’t put it together.

The caliber of play in professional football compared to college is better and everybody knows it. They don't realize how much better. What a giant leap forward in the ability of talent level, the speed, and even the grasp of what you are trying to do. There is no other distractions before the players.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

When you don't play those big matches for a few years, it's tough to play back-to-back after that.