Sustained Performance Quotes

I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.

Sometimes durability's better than ability, especially in this crazy sport.

Continuity is very important for national teams.

I wasn't about one season, but career and longevity.

Being a winger or a wide mid, I have to run continuously for 90 minutes, which not only takes endurance but also strength in my legs to be able to be explosive for 90 minutes. I think weight training has really allowed me to sustain for those 90 minutes.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

I think whether home or away, it's playing a full four quarters, doing good things on offense all the way through the game rather than just in spurts.

It just shows you have come prepared to play and ready to execute. It doesn't give you that much comfort when it's early and you still have another two and a half to three quarters to go. You better keep playing. But it is a positive, it gives you energy and it gives you a little boost like that.

It's one thing to make it to the NBA. It's one thing to make the playoffs your first year. It's one thing to make the playoffs your second year. But if you want to be great, you've got to continue to work.

There's a lot of guys who can bowl 150 km/h when you give them the ball when they're fresh in the morning, but can they do it late in the afternoon when it's boiling hot and they're bowling their 20th over for the day? I want to be able to do that and I want to be the only guy who is able to do that.

If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

Some guys have one good year and fade away. I've worked too hard to get here and it's took me too long to just fade away.

I don't think I could last in anything for 10 years doing a character.

I want to be like a Christy Turlington, still doing my craft and still killing it. I want longevity and to be able to do this for a really long time.

Theatre is difficult. It's not that I'm afraid of doing 'one takes' or shots, but it's about being able to live one character for several hours on a daily basis!

You can get lucky in the cups, but you don't get lucky over a 38-game season.

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

Theater mode is a different muscle. It's sort of the same acting muscle, but it's extended. Instead of a sprint with movies and television, it's a marathon.

I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair going an hour at the 1992 Rumble, or Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog being one and two in 1995 and both lasting until the end.

Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value

The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.