Quotes About Preparation

If you put nothing away for retirement, I can tell you, to the last penny, how much you will have when you retire: nothing.

In 'Bunny,' I have got my dialogues - almost 80 per cent of my shots were okayed in a single take. I did put in effort and did a lot of homework.

You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

Nobody's feeling, after 10 days of playing every day, 100 per cent ready or fit.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

In this league, it's all about being close to 100 percent on game day.

I just have to be ready and shoot it no matter what percentage I'm shooting.

I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.

When you are in a sport, there is a plan to reach for perfection in a certain week in August and it gives you a focus in life and in everything you do around it.

I'm a perfectionist, and I'm not going to let the world hear a record until it's ready.

I have to play everything just perfectly. I can't take less of myself. I'm strong. I'm prepared.

I do not eat before I perform.

When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.

My form is more on the lines of a Chinese porcelain-jar juggler. They learn it as a child. They learn, learn, learn, learn - but not with a porcelain jar. Then, when they're ready to perform, they're taken to a museum, and they're given a porcelain jar for a lifetime to use. When they're done, it's returned to the museum.

To do well at a new competition, you need a lot of good performances.

I feel like everything's got to be neat and everything's got to be right before I put on my performance, so I brush my hair.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

I don't know why I performed well against Arsenal, but probably we prepared well, and it could be their football style as well.

I believe that comfort level is crucial for a performer.

Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.