Bernard Ebbers Quotes

You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

We simply must do better.

When you don't win anything, at the end of the day, you cannot say it is a good season.

When you taste first place, if you then go and finish fourth, you will be disappointed.

It's the best fifth place I've ever had.

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

Those who can keep achieving results are the big players at the big clubs. If you cannot get the results, you just can't play and move away.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

When you don't have results it is very difficult for players to have that high confidence.

If I don't get hits, I don't get hits, but I'm trying to get hits.

There's no point looking good and losing. Winning is what it's all about, and you can't always look spectacular while doing it.

If you win a game, everyone is happy, and if you lose, everyone is watching you.

The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either.

At the end of the day, it's not really about the aces, it's about getting the job done.

When you win, that's what you're expected to do and when you lose, people get on your back.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.

With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.

Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.

You get the job done or you don't.