Performance Variance Quotes

When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.

I think that's the great thing about the NFL. You're out there, and there are very few perennials. It's a battle every single year. You can go first to worst, worst to first.

In this league, you'll have a good week on defense and the next week get lit up.

You can sometimes bowl extremely well and get no reward.

Sometimes it can feel like my bad days in Test cricket get amplified or singled out more than other players, while my good ones can fly under the radar. I'm not making excuses but over time this can get to you a little bit.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

Even teams that win 110 games have stretches when they don't play well.

The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

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

Unfortunately, football's hard and you're going to have bad games sometimes.

Goals come in bunches. When you're hot, things go in. Then there will be times where you go through a span where you have about 20 games without a goal and it's just how it is.

In a season, every striker has some periods where he doesn't score.

Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.

I think players have ups and downs in their careers.

You cannot always run at your best.

A band's best and worst shows really aren't that far apart.

That's match play. You've got to get lucky. You've got to try to catch somebody on a down day when you have a down day.

Over the season, the games come thick and fast, and in some games, you aren't so lucky.

The games can go any way. As we know in this league, you can win by 30 or lose by 30 the next night. That is just the way the league is.

What's the difference between a good player and a great player? A good player plays well in his own conditions - a great player plays well in all conditions.

During the season, there are all types of games - ones where you deserve more than you get and ones where you get more than you deserve.

We've seen a lot of average college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into terrible NFL players.

That is something you can never explain, it is part of all sporting life. Anybody can have a bad day and they can have many good days.