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World records are only borrowed. (Monks John)
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. (Monks John)
You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five. (Monks John)
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon. (Monks John)
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The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake. (Monks John)
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. (Monks John)
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. (Monks John)
Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it. (Monks John)
The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing. (Monks John)
If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds. (Monks John)
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. (Monks John)
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment. (Monks John)
I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do. (Monks John)
Too aim is not enough, you must hit! (Monks John)
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly. (Monks John)
Wise to resolve, patient to perform. (Monks John)
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense. (Monks John)
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking. (Monks John)
How much we like ourselves governs our performance. (Monks John)
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (Monks John)
I think many performers are sensitive. (Monks John)
“I am happy with my performance,” (Monks John)
“The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.” (Monks John)
“Their performance in the triple jump surprised me. We had practiced that event only one day. But those guys are students of the events they compete in. They were learning as they were jumping.” (Monks John)
“Stephen didn't do as well as he would have liked. John and Jackson both performed well.” (Monks John)
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