Quotes About Preparation

You're doing yourself a disservice if you're not building your roster and your team to give yourself a legitimate chance to score 21 points.

I try to distract with other things, but in my mind, it is always the game, especially the team, the shape, my players, what can I do, what is tomorrow, what can I give to them to improve them.

If you pinpointed someone before the kick-off, probably you would become embroiled in a fight, and you would be distracted from what really matters and not play well.

I'm not going to worry about any outside pressure or distractions or any of the things that comes with being the #1 pick. I know there is responsibility that comes with it, but I'm ready to get after it.

We had doubles for some of the stuff but a lot of it had to do with there's certain hours that you can dive and then you can't dive for another certain, like 12 hours just for the air and stuff.

Ring rust is real. I've experienced it myself.

I remember going to the first ever DragCon, and I know this sounds crazy, but I've never experienced a ComicCon or anything like that of this nature. So it was a full carnival of extravaganza. I was a little bit more prepared the second year because I was excited to see everything.

I roughly draw the scene beforehand to be more confident on the set. Instead of talking and explaining certain things, I try to visually communicate the scene to my team with the story board. This is how I work.

I don't take time off. If you've been out of a house for six months and then you come back in and you turn the light on, it might explode. It isn't used to be used. I keep my energy going. It's not a shock to the body when I start playing again. I don't have to 'get in shape.'

If I had had a big explosion of a break right at the beginning of my career, I don't know that I was emotionally ready for that, as a human, just yet.

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

I've been doing extra work but I always do. I want to feel at my best and I want to be ready when the gaffer gives me the chance.

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's not enough food?

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

I had 12 years in the Army before I ever faced combat.

Sometimes you have faced no shots during 90 minutes, and in minute 91, there is a shot. You always need to be focused, concentrated, and this is what makes you tired, being so focused.

As an actress I have faced the camera a lot many times but you always feel nervous before the first shot.

A lot of different factors go into making your performance a good one.

If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

A black entrepreneur has to be equally if not more prepared than a white to get his fair share of loan money.

Practice, training camps to me are fairly easy.

As a player, sometimes you expect something to happen every time the ball is in the box. Every time somebody falls down, you get nervous because you have to watch your back because anything can happen.

I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something.