Gerrit Cole Quotes

Just go in and do your work and be ready for it, because when the stars align and the part is available and everybody in the room is excited... and you deliver, that's it.

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.

I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.

If I do my job, take advantage of every opportunity I get out there and be in the right spot, the plays will come. When it does come, I've got to take advantage of it.

Everybody in this league waits on an opportunity when you don't play the starter minutes, when you don't play the type of minutes you want. And with each given opportunity, you got to be ready to come out and perform.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

You've got to stay ready, especially around here. That's what we preach, you'll get your opportunity whether it comes at the beginning or in the middle or in the end whenever it may be. When your time comes, you need to be ready to go because you're going to earn your minutes

It ain't enough to get the breaks. You gotta know how to use 'em.

Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'

The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

I am not a bomber. I'm more about precision and being target-oriented. I have to rely on all parts of my game firing if I'm going to win.

We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.

If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.