Great performers welcome pressure.

Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.

Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.

We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.