Quotes About Preparation

It's the thing I miss about football, I suppose: being with the team day-in day-out, getting a team ready for a Saturday afternoon, or getting yourself ready for a Saturday afternoon - it's the most difficult part.

I was fortunate. I probably could have saved more money, too. But, it's like, even though I'm not really the Million Dollar Man, I have a retirement account, I saved some money, and I did some right things.

We do about 600 saves in a training week, just for that one save on a match day. That's why you've got to be in the game at all times.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

One of the scariest things for any athlete, I think, is pretty much the off season.

It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.

Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.

For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

Whatever headspace you need to live in for your character is sort of where you stay in between scenes.

Being on time is a practice I imbibed from my dad. He would be ready with make-up on at least three hours ahead of schedule.

You don't look through the NBA schedule and say, 'this is going to be an easy night.'

Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.

You can scout people as much as you want. At the end of the day, it's a fight, so you got to be ready for almost anything.

If I had gotten the parts in 'Scream' or 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' I would not have been very good in them, and I would've squandered whatever success I had gotten because I wasn't ready for that sort of thing. So I feel grateful for all of the years that I have behind me trying to get traction and a career.

To my knowledge, I don't believe I've taken a role that I didn't feel I could do when I read the screenplay.

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

There's no such thing as an easy role. Every part, you take it lightly and it will get screwed.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.

I took a good one year off before and after Haroon's birth, so from the beginning I have been right into it. For me, it was quite seamless.

I think about the next season right away.

In theater, we know a scheduled season months in advance.

Seasons are 10 months long and what matters is to get to the last two to three months in your best form.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.