Quotes About Dedication

Every race is like training and preparation.

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

To be the name on somebody's shirt that they've made themselves in preparation for one of your shows - it doesn't get much cooler than that.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.

It's the training that's the hardest. It's the preparation. The months and months of preparation that nobody really sees, that's the hardest part.

I have always tried to improve myself in every practice session. When it comes to playing and preparation, I am as disciplined and dedicated as anyone else.

Whether I play or not, nothing will change my preparation.

You know, I'm never really 100-percent in any of those fights, because it's so hard to have perfect preparation for fighting and cutting weight and making 170 pounds, and being in the best shape for training camp and to make that cut.

You can not be in top five in Olympic after just one year's preparation.

I miss the preparation for game week and all the things. I miss the draft and getting prepared for that. I grew up in this business, that's all I've ever known.

My preparation and my routine are the foundations to my success.

My style is part of my lifestyle and part of my preparation to get ready to play in the game. It's my preparation for life, I should say.

It's elite sport and elite preparation for games.

I want to be great at what I do. I take a lot of pride in it. And I try not to sell myself short in my work and preparation.

I believe your best preparation is to just get your rest and just go out there and continue to do what you've been doing, not to try to do anything uncharacteristic that you haven't been doing. That's my main thing.

I believe you have to learn how to win. And that just doesn't come from going out on the basketball court and playing. That comes from hours and hours of preparation, preparation before that game, preparation for the other team you are playing, mental preparation.

Preparation is very important for me.

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.