You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.
When you're playing the best player in the world, you've got to play well.
Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
I got my first job by exceeding expectations.
As a Navy SEAL, and sniper, one of the things I learned was that excellence matters.
I put up some great numbers.
Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.
When you look at role models, you tend to look at players who have played at the highest level, your Viv Andersons and so on.
I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.
That's when I'm at my best: when I'm surrounded by good players.
He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I don't think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.
It is difficult to take in how long you have been doing one thing when you compete at the highest level and always with the highest intensity.
A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.
There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.
Right from the start of my career I was surrounded by people like Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Graeme Smith, who gave 100 percent in every performance.
The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.
When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much an iron man as much as I was a cricketer. Having surfed, fished, hunted, that was just a natural thing.
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
If you want to continue to be good and perform at a high level and be deep in all areas, you still have to hit on some undervalued players, too. You can't just go out and sign marquee free agents or trade for players when they're at the peak of their value. That's not a formula for long-term success.
Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?
