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"Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality... Mindsets Matter Most."

"He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous."

"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."

"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."

"Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance."

"Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will."

"When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity."

"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition."
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"If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?"

"I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years."

"If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach."

"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability."

"When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards."

"The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem."

"If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work."

"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't."
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