Quotes About Preparation

Our seasons aren't like most sports, where the climax comes at the end. With us, the Olympics are much more important than anything else.

You have to be prepared for situations on and off the field, and everything that happens within the world of football. It's difficult for players at big clubs to deal with these things.

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

I'm not the kind of fighter who just hates each other before the fight. I can talk to you until one minute before the fight, and then I will take your head off if I can.

Usually I work at the merch table until one minute before I have to go on stage.

I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

One thing I always do in the huddle, pre-snap, is make eye contact.

The biggest thing for me coming into the league was my last year in college I didn't think about the NFL one time. I just played ball and went out there and did what I did and let everything take care of itself. It worked out great for me.

One word in one system might mean something else. You have to get a feel for it and study hard and then also when you get into these game-plan weeks, just bear down on what we're doing on a week-to-week basis.

You never know what's coming round the corner. There's only one thing coming round the corner - more corners.

The only time I feel not consistent or accurate is when I don't know the play or if I am late on my drop.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty.

When I'm onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on.

When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.

I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry.

At Juve you always have to go onto the field ready to give your best.

Fighting is just something that's gonna open doors for things to come in the future.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.

It's all about giving yourself a chance to win the opener, and then after that, you focus in on Week 2.