Quotes About Preparation

If a student believes that taking too many exams is hard or skipping advanced courses for a lighter load is a better deal, just wait until he or she goes to college and needs to prepare for finals or has to figure out complex work problems in a stressful environment.

When you prepare an album, it's really hard and stressful and you don't get too much sleep.

It's always hard being an alternate. Knowing you might not be put in, but you have to work just as hard. It's stressful.

You get to the rink, stretch for 10-15 minutes, go on the ice 20 minutes before practice starts and do goalie drills, practice for an hour, then stay on the ice for about 10-15 minutes to do extra shooting.

I try to get away from the pits as quickly as I can. I speak to my engineer when I get out of the car, usually there's some press to do, then I will go off and have a shower and get my dry, clean overalls and clothing on. I'll have a massage, stretch and something to eat. I don't sleep, but I try to close my eyes for a while.

I always meditate before every show. I say a prayer with my crew and my band to get in the mode, and I also stretch because it's a very athletic show. We've got to entertain; it's what we do.

Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.

I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.

Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.

I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret.

I won't train on the day of the fight but I'll stretch, stay loose, and then I'll meditate.

I always take a shower before I play just to kind of wake up. Then I stretch.

It's important for me not to peak before I hit the stage. In other words, I save all of my creative and physical energy for when I walk on stage. If I can get 45 minutes of just easy going, playing rhythm, songs, stuff like that, then that's what I do to make sure that I'm all stretched out and ready.

Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.

Fight prep, boxing, cardio, stretching. It's almost like dancing, you have to learn to dance and keep practicing it.

The best part of gameday is when kickoff finally happens. The worst part is going through all warmups and stretching and waiting and waiting for the game.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

I'm strict about taking nuts and dried fruit with me and, if I have access to milk, small packets of porridge to eat in a break.

The first time I did a men's game, it was strictly because of an emergency. I went down with no preparation, but I was a fan and knew the teams. And I knocked them dead, so the next year, I had a package of men's games.

You want to hit full strides going into the first game and maintain it.

With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.

There's not a single strike that good preparation can't negate.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.