Quotes About Preparation

I think Kentucky really prepared me for Miami.

The cat with gloves catches no mice.

We never enter the studio unless we feel like, right now, if these are the songs we record, that we would have an album that we're proud of and we're excited about. And we put everything under the microscope and examine it the best we can to make sure that we're prepared.

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

I knew from day one what I was going into with the Milan job.

I think I could make a 1,000 mile race. But I would definitely have to take pre-race precautions to make sure I could make it that far.

A guy can do a stair-stepper for an hour or go out and run five miles, but there's a big difference between doing that and going out into the ring and being ready to go-go-go-go-go!

When you get out of the military, all you are doing is a work-up for the longest deployment of your life.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

I listen to a lot of Drake and Meek Mill before games.

From Rebecca Miller, I took the idea that the director needs to arrive every day an hour ahead of everyone else and walk through the entire day.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

If you stop and think about it before you compete, you would freeze. If you think about the millions of people watching, the expectation, the consequences of winning, of losing, it's a massive moment in your life.

There's no better way of getting yourself back into a rhythm and back into game shape than playing a game. You can't really mimic that in practice.

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

My mindset is always focused, which goes up on match days.

I do enjoy a level of intensity that I bring when I'm the Demon, but it's a mindset that takes a couple of days to get into; it's not something I can do every day.

Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.

My mindset is the same every game.

When we did our first record, my mindset was this is all going to be over tomorrow.

My mindset is to go out there and be confident, believe in yourself, visualizing success and visualizing plays you're gonna make in games.

As far as practice, I get those mental reps. I don't have to physically be out there. It's just a mindset and a mentality.

I go into each game with the same mindset of showing people what I can do and letting the rest take care of itself.

It's difficult for your mindset when you don't know what you're training for.