Quotes About Preparation

I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality.

Here's what I always tell people: It's a mentality that you have to have in the NFL. It isn't about if you have the athleticism. When they bring you in, you've already shown what you can do athletically.

Many people ask, 'What do you need mentally to succeed in F1?' I say, 'What do you mean mentally?'

It's like, every game you never know how a defender is going to play you. You have to be mentally focused.

I have to be mentally right every time I take the floor.

The most important thing is to be mentally ready.

I think the game is so mental. If you sit around and you're mentally strong, you're ready.

I know if I want to have a chance to beat the top players, I need to be mentally ready for that.

It's all a mind thing, just all mental. You have to know going into the game you have to play at a high level, as many minutes, stuff like that. It's just all mental. You get yourself mentally prepared for it and go out there and play.

No, I never go into a game with any doubts. I always feel confident in my ability, and hopefully I can be strong mentally.

I'm always thinking and so even if I'm not on the golf course I'm mentally thinking.

You never know when your chance will come. You have to be mentally prepared and be in best shape possible.

How prepared we are mentally is very important.

When teams see coach Gruden and myself run out on the field, they know, 'Hey, man, we are in for it mentally today.'

You can see when people's locked in and they are ready mentally, and when they are not.

If I'd got to the top too early, I would not have been a success. I was physically and mentally ready.

You can't play this game without being fit, and without being mentally fit and ready.

For many years, I was not mentally ready for marriage.

I have a lot of mermaid stuff. I did start collecting a lot before I had children because I didn't know if I would have a boy or a girl. So I saved everything.

If you mess around, and you don't take every game as seriously as possible, there's going to be a time you get to the Finals and say look, 'We're not sharp right now.' At that point, there's nothing you can do.

There's a band called Pantera that I listen to, and then Metallica's 'And Justice for All.' If you listen to a little bit of that before you go on stage, you're pretty much set for the whole show.

I like listening to Method Man before fighting.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.