Quotes About Preparation

I feel like I've got a routine with how I study the opponent and go about each week.

I think Cormier is a great opponent. He's a guy who has competed at the highest level of athletics and I'm going to have to train really hard for him.

The only thing that helps you play better is being ready to go against your next opponent.

I'd say I love the challenge of game-planning for the opponent every week.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

I focus on my opponents the same way whether they are a champion or not.

When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

My coaches do all the breakdowns of my opponents, and I leave that up to them.

I saw Bob Arum out in America, I saw him walking through the lobby in the MGM Grand. I basically went over and said: 'You're running out of opponents for Crawford and I'm the guy to beat him. I'm here.' I saw Terence Crawford, he said he was ready for it, so everybody is on the same page. Everyone wants to make the fight.

I respect all my opponents and they do the same thing that I do to get ready for fights.

Some fighters don't like to have their opponents changed on short notice. It really is a complicated situation because you prepared for someone for months, for a fighting style, and then the fight is off, but it's part of the job. It's natural, that's why we train every aspect of MMA.

I learned a lot with Andre Villas-Boas at Porto. He is very intelligent tactically. He was almost so well informed about the opponents that we pretty much knew everything about them when we went out on to the pitch. It was scary how much we knew.

What's important is that you build your company to be able to capture the opportunity as it comes.

It's more difficult for me to get into a character in the lead-up as opposed to leaving it.

I figure out who I'm playing opposite, and I really do study them.

To be a great NFL player, you have to know what your opponent is doing, not just opposite your position but what they're doing all over the field. All the contingencies.

My job is to do exactly that with every player - to put him in a frame of mind where he is thinking only about his role and he is thinking about the team he is playing for and, of course, the opposition which we always respect.

I always tell the players that we have to expect the best version of our opposition.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

I make sure I eat before I go anywhere just in case they don't have a vegan-friendly option.

Make sure you're building your brand early and make sure it's a good brand so in life after basketball, you have an option and you have resources to help you with that.

An hour and a half before games, I always eat fruit - a banana, an apple, and an orange - because I'm trying to get natural energy. You get natural sugars and natural energy from that.

It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.