Quotes About Anticipation

The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once. The thing that struck me about it was that the ending wasn't an ending. It was essentially a cliffhanger. It was the first time I had ever read anything like that, where you read a book, but the book isn't the book.

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.

People are anticipating my next move, and whatever it's going to be, it's going to be big. I'm not fussy over my opponent.

It helps to be able to see things before your opponent. In futsal, you have less time to think so make decisions faster than most. You know what is coming. It may not always work, but an understanding is generated through futsal.

The point in tennis is to take the ball as early as possible and take time away from your opponent.

You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn't expect.

I help receivers on my team every now and then, but I'm slow to do even that because they could end up my opponent the following year.

The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

I never choose my opponents, but I think the biggest fight that everybody wants to watch, the fans want to watch, is me and Ronda.

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'm a southpaw and a counter-puncher. I tend to box on the back foot and catch my opponents when they come forward.

I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

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.

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

When the opposition has the ball you don't want to chase. You want to stay fresh for when the opportunity comes to score.

I'd definitely have some butterflies if the day ever came when I'd get to sit down with Oprah.

I'm a blind optimist when going into things.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

People are optimistic about the future.

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.

I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.