I would say luck and preparation. I didn’t dominate WWE when I first started, it was a slow process. I wasn’t labelled the golden child from day one, it’s been a very long road.

I was fortunate enough to interact with him when I played for RCB in IPL. I learnt from AB as to how he prepares for a game. I get amazed by the kind of strokes he hits and the time he has got to play those shots.

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

Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower

The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is.

Keeping calm allows you to think more clearly and being patient allows you to be prepared on how best to run a beautiful race.

To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial.

Education is important because it prepares you for life

I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

The oft-repeated quip, “I’m sorry to write you a long letter, as I did not have time to write a short one,” could be applied to meetings: “I’m sorry to imprison you in this long meeting, as I did not have time to prepare a short one.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes

The only hope of a short war is to prepare for a long one.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

In time of peace, prepare for war.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and–sans End! Alike for those who for To-day prepare, And those that after some To-morrow stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries
“Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.

Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture

It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.