Sam Lloyd Quotes

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Any time you can get in a position to start to get some of the quality work in as early as possible, I think it gives you a leg up or at least gives you the opportunity to be really prepared for the first time you take the ball.

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.

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.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

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

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

For me, always being ready and knowing that when I have my opportunity, I have to go out there and do my best. My whole career has been like that. I try to do my best in putting my focus in what I can control.

When you get your chance, you just have to be ready and believe that chances will come, that you are going to step forward and produce.

I try my best when I get an opportunity and my number gets called.

Talent is not enough. You need to be in the right place at the right moment.

It can be a grind, training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself, you have to be ready because you never know if or when you'll get another shot.

I always prepare myself in the same manner and when the opportunity comes along you have to grasp it.

As an actor, you spend years getting ready for an opportunity to arise, and when it does, you're ready for 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.

People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.

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.

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

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.