Quotes About Readiness

My whole life, I've been preparing for moments and you can only know how you're going to react once you're in them.

When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. You can't do that at first base. You go too far in that direction, and it's hard to scurry back and be ready to pick the throw.

The future of the U.N. will be determined by its readiness to change and adapt.

It is good to start as young as you can. What is more important is to carve out your vision and assess your readiness to start giving. Commitment and purpose are core to giving.

Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.

When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.

Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle.

What we can control is our readiness.

The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority is to ensure the readiness of our military.

Instead of measuring military readiness in terms of overall size and numbers, we must focus on metrics of capability, particularly in technology, and positioning.

Everybody has to be accountable on every play. The main thing is that we have to do our job. Going through all of the keys, making sure we are making the right reads, blocking the right person and getting the right route depth. Everything.

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

Every off-season you look at what you can improve on. So you come in for the new season fresh and ready to go again.

I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

I'm emotionally and physically ready for anything.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Just go out there and play every day. Every day is a new day. Every day is the same day. You've got to just be ready to play.

I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.