Quotes About Preparation

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

You cannot just expect a promotion to come from the sky.

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

I don't put myself under huge pressure because if I don't play well at one grand slam, I know there's another one just a couple of months away.

When you play semifinals on a Grand Slam, anything can happen, so you must be ready for the chance.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.

I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.

I would never go anywhere without a notebook and pen. I don't even sleep without a notebook and pen by my side.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

I've always been a very good sleeper. I can sleep any time, anywhere and never lost sleep before a big match.

When I go to bed at night, I wear a sleeping bag. And for a long time, I wore mittens so that I couldn't open the sleeping bag.

I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race.

My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.

If I'm not working, I'm either sleeping or preparing for the next day of work.

I was performing in front of mirrors forever. Just jumping around my room at, like, three in the morning when everybody else was sleeping. So when it came time, I was so ready.

Always know I have something up my sleeve.

I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day.

In our family a whole ham on the bone would be bought three days before Christmas, and then stored in a pillow case and left in the fridge so anyone can take the huge thing out and slice it.

Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.

As a fighter, that's not something that ever factors in, whether you go first or last or you walk out first or you walk out second. It's not something that ever factors in or you feel slighted about. I don't think that anybody would care. The job is the same.

As a batter you are generally playing a mental game most of the time and having too long to prepare can work against you - you can almost fry yourself out before a Test match or feel slightly fatigued two games in because you have spent too long preparing.