Quotes About Preparation

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

What I always say is, "Look good, feel good, play good."

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.

I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and the food took me down.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

To arm is to give one's voice and make one's preparations, not for peace but for war.