Quotes About Preparation

I'm working my way into acting gradually - I don't want people to think I'm just swanning in there.

When teachers would say, 'When you all graduate, you won't have anywhere to go' - I'm the type of person playing chess and thinking ahead. I thought that was a good question. Am I going to be winging it? I didn't want to be in that position, so I set myself up to go to college.

We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

We have too few college graduates. We also have too few people who are prepared for college.

Obviously, I'm going to graduate college. So if sports don't work out, I'll have something to fall back on.

I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

Especially the top players, they always try to set their own form, so to say, around the Grand Slams because that's where they want to play their best.

When you win a Grand Prix, it's the culmination of everything coming together. Not just trackside, but behind the scenes.

Every day is different, and every wicket is different. You cannot take things for granted.

You've got to put the work in every week. You can't take anything for granted.

I look at the N.B.A. as a job, a great job to have, so I think, for me, I would have loved the opportunity to go to the N.B.A. out of high school. If you're not ready, you're not ready. If you are ready, I think you should be able to go.

I have an acting coach, a dialect coach, and just a great team around me.

Once you've sat in a room annoying Derek Jacobi while he's trying to do his crossword, you're prepped for working with the greats.

Theater definitely prepared me for Cyborg in the best way possible. All of the green screen definitely takes me to my minimalist theater days.

Some people might say, 'It's training camp, the grind of things, can't wait to get to the regular season. Things will be easier.' But I look forward to it.

When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.

Booking travel is not like shopping or groceries or booking a restaurant. It's much less frequent, so understanding what works just takes a lot more time.

Going to the court is not like going to the grocery store.

No matter how dope you are, if you ain't really built, if you ain't put that groundwork in, you gonna flop. Nobody gonna fill those arenas.

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

You have to give your best as you can't guarantee the success of your film, but you can always give a good performance.

You have to make sure you have the right people around you to get the right fights, and you're not guaranteed to get the best fights.

I try to get there three hours before the game, talk with the ushers and the security guards, the coaches and the fans.