Quotes About Preparation

I think the wildest thing you do to get a role is putting yourself together for an audition.

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith are hall-of-famers. When they hit the red carpet, they know exactly what they're going to do, how they're going to do it. Damn, they're good.

I listen to some Hank Williams before I go out. I tell some jokes. I have fun. I don't waste too much energy thinking about it - I like to save that all for the ring.

If you made all the French fries you ate, you would eat them much less often, if only because they're so much work. The same holds true for fried chicken, chips, cakes, pies, and ice cream. Enjoy these treats as often as you're willing to prepare them - chances are good it won't be every day.

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

During Wimbledon, I ate only rice and pineapple. My coach cooked for me. He made sweet rice.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.

I think you have to go out believing you can win the match; otherwise, there's no point walking out on the court, really.

I just go to work every day, spend hours in the film room, go to practice, go home and then do it all again the next day. I know I can be boring and I sound like a walking cliche but I really do just try to get our team ready to win a game on Saturday. That's pretty much my life.

I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?

The key is not being overconfident. You should not think that because I'm a top-ranked player, I will win this game. You have to be focused.

I don't have a doubt that if I wanted to win Grand Slams, I would commit. I'd train two times a day. I'd go to the gym every day. I'd stretch. I'd do rehab. I'd eat right.

To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

The shirt doesn't win you the game.