Performance Matters Quotes

I do my research the same as everyone else - I watch games relentlessly and try to be the best that I can be. It should be irrelevant whether I'm male or female, so as long as I work hard and try my best at it, then more we keep speaking about it, then we can eradicate it from the game.

Grantland Rice told us that it matters not whether you win or lose. It’s how you play the game! I bought that when I was young. Then I found out that it was a lie. America is about winning!

Ultimately, when you're out on track with your helmet on, nobody can see the driver. Nobody can judge you on what you look like if your hair is long or short, if you're black or you're white, if you're male or female. All that matters is your performance.

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

So many guys come onto the scene who aren't supposed to be there. You pull for one, and then you see there's another and another and another, and you start to say, 'Who cares where a player was drafted? He can play football, and he can play at this level.'

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.

After your debut, it doesn't matter whether your parents are actors or factory workers. All that matters is whether you can get the job done.

Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.

If we're playing and competing at the level we want to and we know we can, then nothing else is really going to matter.

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

When it comes to belts and rank, I don't care what belt I am; I don't care what rank I am. I'm proud that I've achieved high ranks through some great instructors around the world, but ultimately, the mat doesn't lie.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

You don’t drive races on paper.

You should be judged on your performances, not how long you've been around.

Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.

If you're not a first-round pick or you're not 6-2, they always say you can't be the best. But the only time there's a weight class is before the draft. This is the NFL. It's all about what you do. I can run past guys and get done what I need to. I can do everything the big guy can do.

I do not speak very often to the press. I just have it in my head. I do my talking out there on the field, which is the most important thing.

I am disappointed when I lose and don't play well, for example. But it is not so disappointing to lose when you play good. And I never feel I want to put the racquet down and walk away because of losing.

I prefer to be favourites on the pitch; not with words.

If you play well at club level, then, you deserve an invitation for the national team. That's the way it goes.