Performance Measure Quotes

I don't think you have to be flamboyant to be a great player.

Second doesn't mean anything in cycling.

For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

Players who have more great games than other players are the great players.

There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.

I don't think the qualifying fixtures excite people. They're games against countries that we are expected to beat, rightly so, and then how many we score dictates whether it's a good performance or not.

The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.

People suppose that you are great if you win and rubbish if you lose. Well, actually, whatever the result I still know what I am doing.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

Every coach has to put himself in his club and to try to become a really important coach for his club. The most important thing is that the club can be happy, the fans can be happy, and the players can be happy with your work. This must be our task. Then, if you are No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, this is not important.

Let me tell you what's fun in golf - low scores. The manufacturers have tricked people into believing that distance is everything. There is no place on the scorecard that says you need to hit it 350 yards.

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

The good news is in the record business, they only count your successes.

You've got to be on all-league teams before you can say that you are going to be a great basketball player.

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Money is always an indicator of a job well done.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Does it make a difference if I score 8000 or 10,000 runs in Test cricket? Not in anybody's life.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

I don't think being undefeated is going to determine my greatness.

People can't always judge by the records. Maybe a guy has 11 wins in MMA but he's fought the best. Someone else has 11 wins but he's fought nobody. It's a difficult sport because someone can be a champion in four fights, look at Brock Lesnar. So records don't always mean a lot.