Matt Barnes Quotes

The Hall of Fame is pretty good at preparation and getting you ready for what to expect.

Experience is everything in this league.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.

Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season.

I'm all about getting the training. Don't roll out of bed and say, 'I can do this.'

I've been around this game for a long time - a lot of plane rides, a lot of bus rides, a lot of pregame speeches, a lot of national anthems.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

I don't have to prepare any differently because it's Messi, because every day in training I am up against people like Rooney, Berbatov, Ronaldo, and Tevez, so you know what to do against big players.

Growing up as a wrestler, especially in practice, I think you get used to competing without much of a crowd around.

Each fight has its own preparations and challenges.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

It's just my job to prove I belong in there. I've been in the league a long time.

With NXT there are always going to be a few people who are still developing because that's what NXT is, but that's really exciting because you get to see them thrown into the deep end.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

I learn from each match that I have, especially when it's a different opponent.

Get your work in, do what you need do, and get back up top. I'm a little bit behind the curve as far as not really having a spring training, so you're trying to get your work in, trying to work on things, and at the same time, you're also going out there trying to be competitive.

The more you see, the more you're going to learn. Just got to take advantage of the opportunity and get ready to play ball.

I'm a professional; I'd never fight against Mirko or anyone else not being prepared.

One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.

I need eight weeks, train hard, last one week make weight, and go to the war. Because when I go to the war, I have to know I am ready or no.