Quotes About Preparation

I always practiced like I expected to play.

The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

I don't know why, but I don't really get too nervous before games or practices or whatever.

Normally a summer league is a dry run for training camp, gives the guys an idea what training camp looks like, and then summer league, you're not really playing against NBA rotation type players, so not a good example of the talent level you'll be facing, but the fall practices give you a good head start.

It's great to have great practices during the week, but you gotta make sure you are performing on game day and making those plays for your team.

I try to have the same mindset in my practices as I would for my fights.

Luck does play a huge role in whatever field you're practicing, whether that's medicine, acting, singing; but the way you make luck work for you is you constantly put yourself in a position to get lucky.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

I hate not practicing.

We have to take every game serious. And when I say serious, I mean doing the right things, practicing good habits.

All the training for the combine was basically practicing for the different drills that we would see at the combine. Rather than football specific drills that we would do at BC.

Whenever I practise in the nets, I practise each and every situation - be it with the new ball, be it with the old ball, or death bowling at the death.

It's one thing to practise in front of a mirror at home, but another to do it in front of 800 people or on live TV.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

Usually, before I salute the judge, I'm able to just grab the event, and I pray on it, and that really grounds me. For some reason, once I do that, I am able to think clearly, and I'm able to calm down right before I compete.

You've got to take what comes. You've got to make yourself available for everything; you've got to pray that you're in a position to do the jobs when they come around.

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

In the morning before all the craziness happens, I make sure to pray, and I'll put aside 10 minutes to meditate. I feel when I do that, I'm able to get through my day a lot better.

Before I step in the Octagon, I pray one last time and take a huge deep breath, and then I'm home.

I have to pray before I play, and I gotta eat right before I go out there. For a while when I was younger, I would always eat chicken tenders and fries no matter what.

I always pray before the game. I have a big-time belief in that. It just gives me that extra boost, the confidence, the faith that I'm going to play and be safe.

I prayed before fights. Especially just before I got in to the ring. But I'd also have my iPod on, Prodigy and Linkin Park ripping through my ears.

I always say a prayer before the blocks - it helps calm me down.