Preparation Quotes - Page 22

Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them.

Michael Irvin

Running, Games, Two

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I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good.

Reggie Miller

Basketball, Hard Work, Guy

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In practice, I run every play like I'm scoring a touchdown.

Mercury Morris

Running, Practice, Play

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I think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so many hitters do not know how to get themselves prepared to play or hit against a pitcher. You have to mentally be prepared to hit against all pitchers.

Hank Aaron

Sports, Thinking, Play

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You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

Tom Brady

Friday, Sunday, Average

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The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

Zebulon Pike

Errors, Attention, Done

Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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By putting pressure on myself to develop a great game, I had less pressure to win. These days, I tell kids that the way I grew up, it wasn't about winning. It was about playing well, about playing the "right" way. That approach helped me enjoy the game and develop mine to its maximum potential.

Pete Sampras

Success, Sports, Kids

Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo (2008). “A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis”, p.25, Crown Archetype

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An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the most difficult and most demanding part of the job, whereas the experienced stage manager thinks of it as the most relaxing part. Perhaps the reason is that experienced stage managers have built up work habits that make then so thoroughly prepared for the production phase that they [can] sit back during performances to watch that preparation pay off.

Laurence Sterne

Running, Jobs, Thinking

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When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.

Albert Hadley

Differences, Design, Cooking

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It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all the way. [...] A pretty finale. I was obviously hoping for the beauty prize sacrificing both my rooks and all, but OK, Im [sic] afraid requirements are one makes a move of his own for that it seems. Something I could avoid doing in the last five rounds in Dresden. Silly game, this chess.

Jan Gustafsson

Silly, Moving, Sacrifice

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Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6...Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [...] The most remarkable feature of the game, and a testament to the depth of Kariakin's preparation, is that when the draw was agreed at move 39, his clock showed 1.52 remaining, some twelve minutes more than he started the game with!

Steve Giddins

Moving, Games, Battle

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Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.

Alva Myrdal

War, People, Everyday

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Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

Max Euwe

Real, Long, Genius

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And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.

Stephen Cambone

War, People, Track

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

Baruch Spinoza

Gratitude, Attitude, Two Sides

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The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art.

Joshua Reynolds

Art, Color, Drawing

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”

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As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's a misinterpretation of life to live it only in preparation for the next one. To subordinate the one you've got to an indefinite next round is foolish. It's a waste of this life not to live this life. What's next is anybody's guess.

Malcolm Forbes

Fun, Trying, Waste

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My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!

Boris Spassky

Play, Games, Perfect

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My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

Jonny Wilkinson

Views, Sides, Professionalism

"Jonny Wilkinson's autobiography reveals him to be a tortured soul" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2011.

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I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.

JoAnne Carner

Sports, Confidence, Knowing

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I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

Edwin Moses

Problem, Injury, Stretching

Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

Edwin Moses

Stretching, Majors

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For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.

John Tillotson

Spiritual, Blessing, Mind

John Tillotson (1685). “A Discourse Against Transubstantiation”, p.30

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Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

Sean Hampton

Determination, Children, Victory

FaceBook post by Sean Hampton from Jan 05, 2012

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There’s nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that you’re not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of opportunity and preparation - it’s a result of that collision. You’ve got to be prepared. So, make your mistakes now and make them quickly. If you’ve made the mistakes, you know what to expect the next time. That’s how you become valuable.

Quincy Jones

Mistake, Good Luck, Opportunity

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