The only thing that I can do is to focus on my preparation.

Preparation is key – every detail matters in football.

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.

Non-crazy gun advocates – the ones who aren’t stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion – don’t like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it’ll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.

His ambition for victory sets Mourinho apart. He wants to win every game, so he prepares all the smallest details; in training, at the game, everything. I loved to work with him.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

The reason why a bad philosophy leads to such hell is that it is what you think and want and treasure and foster in times of preparation that determine what you do in the pinch, and that it takes an error to father a sin.

I had to prepare hard for number four because that’s not where I batted all my life.

As players, we look to prepare, and if opportunity comes by, we want to do well, both for ourselves and for team.

Good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation

A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

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.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Let it be understood that the University is a preparatory school: it is life that gives you the “finals”—not college.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

There are no secrets to success. It’s the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have fucked with? That’s me.

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn’t preparation for work and never was.

Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

I was actually disappointed because I thought the mistakes I made is that people misinterpret my passion for anger.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Economics is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don’t be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.

Preparation for Monaco is a little different: you definitely build up a little bit slower throughout the weekend and pace yourself. It’s important to find the limit carefully.