Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Do not waste a minute — not a second — in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
Forget about style; worry about results.
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
I don't play small. You have to go out and play with what you have. I admit I used to want to be tall. But I made it in high school, college, and now the pros. So it doesn't matter.
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.