Performance Quotes (1886 Quotes)

United is a fundamentally better company today, with sustainable improvements across the business and solid operational performance,

We're surprised that A-B doesn't seem as certain about their team's success, but we hope they'll reconsider because there are so many NASCAR fans who would enjoy watching this wager unfold. We assumed the folks at Budweiser would have more confidence in their driver's performance, especially given that so many experts and fans expect Dale Jr. and his team to be so strong this season.

Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

I thought the biggest success of the weekend was that the kids reacted well to the bad conditions. That they reacted positively, they didn't let it take away from their performance.

Mark was unbelievable today. He provided us with an absolutely huge pitching performance. I can't say enough about what he did for us this afternoon. He came up with the effort that could save our season.

I think that there is a great level of disaffection in the country in terms of the performance of the government and we are going to be challenging them on that over the next few months.

Some of our attacking was very good and we got the goals at the good time, early in each half. In general, I'm really pleased with the performance.

Walter told me as long as I kept scoring goals and kept up my level of performance I had nothing to worry about. Fortunately I managed to score a couple of goals against Motherwell last weekend and another one against Inverness on Sunday so that was a decent response.

We have often failed to deploy sufficient resources to actually make a real difference to the performance of, and activities within, industrial sectors.

There were volunteers who would go to that theater at, say, 9 o'clock in the morning and work upstairs on the third floor. They were so devoted that they would stay for the evening performance.

I'm not overly proud of 9-7. I'm really not. It really wasn't a good performance. It was one of those where you don't have much good to say. I'm just disappointed.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

The bond market is still focused heavily on the Fed commitment. The Fed is increasingly telling us that it's the performance of the economy rather than a point in time that dictates policy change. And the performance of the economy is here.

The purpose of the performance was to find a way to create a celebration that would bring students, teachers, community members and various others together for a common cause.

Everything unfolded the way we thought it would and the way we hoped it would. This was a home run. The Jim Dandy was the kind of performance that propelled Flower Alley to the next level.

Our strategic initiatives and intense focus on the customer delivered another month of strong results. We posted positive comparable sales across all geographic segments for February and marked our 34th consecutive month of positive global comparable sales performance. Both achievements are a testament to the effectiveness and momentum of our Plan to Win.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

The best option is when a player picks it up himself by his level of performance. He genuinely has a passion for the game and plays on a daily basis like he enjoys it. That is representative of the attributes we want in our players.

Based on our findings, we would advise CIO's and IT managers to be aware of the risks associated with selling retired data tapes into the used market or using so-called re-certified tape in their own data centers. In addition to buying media of unacceptable quality and performance, the uncontrolled practice of selling retired media can, in fact, allow your corporate data to end up in the wrong hands - potentially breaching corporate confidentiality policies and possibly violating government compliance regulations.

This is a critical government program that is in complete shambles. We are talking about simple, common- sense responsibility to shield American consumers from rising energy prices. Performance standards are the most successful tool we have to ease the burden on consumers and protect our increasingly fragile energy supply system, but the feds are asleep at the switch.

Athletes didn't invent this stuff. We opened Pandora's box. We're still trying to figure out how to close it. It's bottomless. It's impossible to eliminate them. Let's accept it's inevitable. But don't put athletes on a moral pedestal when it's an absolute joke. Don't speak of purity and ideals. There's too much money invested in performance.

Although we breathe mainly through our nose when resting, during exercise when we begin breathing harder, the air coming in is predominately supplied via the mouth. It may improve airflow through the nose, but there is no evidence that it reaches the lungs and boosts performance.

We are pleased with our first-quarter results, particularly in view of the strength of last year's performance, ... We remain comfortable that we are well-positioned to meet near-term economic and competitive challenges, and deliver reasonable growth in earnings per share for the full year.

If you are able to decrease the noise level by 6 dB, that's half of what it used to be. We've made a 10 dB improvement in dynamic range and total harmonic distortion plus noise (THDN) performance, compared to the CS3310.

Tobacco operating fundamentals sequentially strengthened from the first to the second quarter, and third-quarter performance generally retained that stronger momentum. Results are also particularly encouraging, in our view, given Kraft's continued weak and disappointing overall operating performance... Philip Morris USA is delivering an improved balance of market share and operating profit performance.

There are over 1,500 tickets sold to the performance, filling the majority of the main floor and grand tier. There are still some good seats available.

It's a pretty low period right now. We had two fantastic games versus Buffalo and Toronto, and to come down tonight with that type of performance is unexplainable.

though some of them didn't even grab a medal, in terms of overall performance, they are good athletes.

It was a good opening meet. We knew itd be close. Matts performance was really great for the first meet of the year.

Andy did a great job with this colt, ... I didn't think we could be any worse than second in here and so I'm very pleased with his performance. This is a great tightener for the Canadian Trotting Classic.

It's a tough league but we feel we are capable of getting back up there. Based on tonight's performance, we can.

Good position, good pressure, being patient, being assertive. There was no rush to do things, we were patient. We've grown accustomed to that kind of performance, otherwise we wouldn't have won our division.

These guys bounced into the gym (Sunday night) ready to practice. That's the way we've been all year long. They practice with energy. They just had to parlay it into a performance (Monday) and try to build themselves some confidence.

I felt good tonight. My arm felt good, ... I was able to locate my pitches. I wanted to keep the team in it. I'm happy with my performance. It's a tough loss for us, seeing as we are trying to finish in second place.

Intel chips run too damn hot. If you look at performance gains over the past few years, they've come from putting more transistors on a die and pumping up the clock rate. Thermodynamics has caught up with us.

The plan is to transition to the Intel processor by the end of this calendar year from today's IBM G5 2.3 GHz processor PowerPC processor. It's the best way to improve performance.

It's been a consistent performance. Everyone knows that you have to stop Glen Davis and there haven't been too many that have been able to do that.

These figures represent a very strong performance, reflecting excellent market conditions, exclusive products and continued focus on investment in service and value for our customers.

Generally, what you'll find is a pretty normal distribution (among socially responsible mutual funds). As far as I can tell, those screens don't have an impact positively or negatively on performance.

We're very, very pleased with the performance at every level. We're still very much in the early stages of realizing the long-term vision that we've outlined over the last year. We're tirelessly committed to delivering value to our users and our shareholders.

We have been very pleased with the performance of Portland General, ... However, the rapidly evolving competitive electricity market allows us to deliver commodity services and risk management products to our customers without requiring the ownership of a regulated electric utility.

A lot of guys shot the ball well, and I thought we played extremely hard defensively even though they made a lot of shots. It was a pretty solid performance.

I think public perception is a big part when you talk about selling, ... In order to move things forward, if the decision was based on the performance of the club, obviously not getting into postseason is a big role in that, but I also think the fact that I became a lightning rod for criticism for the organization, with me out of the picture, it makes things easier from that respect.

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

That's one thing we stressed, was working to not give up the bonus points. I said, if we brawl with them for six minutes, let's see what happens. Our kids gave a great effort. Last week, we didn't wrestle to our top against State College. We were kind of lethargic, really lazy. It was a lackadaisical performance. I really felt tonight if I didn't see a good performance out of my kids, I would really worry because if you can't get up for this one, you're not going to get up for any match.

You can tell when people worry about things that don't really matter. For example, you should never worry about the level of performance you has given in that particular scene because there's going to be 10 takes, which is wildly over the top, it would end up on the cutting room floor.

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.

He has stepped up and assumed the Number 1 duty and I can't say enough of the performance of his play and the level of his play.

Without their strong performance, the national figures would have been in negative territory, as you would expect at this time of year.

Gary had a real good second day of wrestling and improved on last year's performance. He has accomplished a lot in just two years of wrestling.