Confucius Quotes

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.

The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.

A winning effort begins with preparation.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

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?'

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.

This is the honest-to-God truth: I just focus on the work, because if my work isn't good, then I won't succeed either way.

If you train, you work hard, you're actually 110-percent dedicated, you're doing it for all the right reasons, you're probably gonna end up on the top. You know the cream always rises to the top.

I don't think too much about how many goals I'm going to target. I work really hard and prepare really well for the season to come... I know when I'm well prepared, when I've worked hard, the results will come.

You have to have plans. But the important thing first is to do your job in the ring. If you do that properly, then success will come.

Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be - it's not a secret and not a magic formula - just hard work and application.

To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.

My most important goal is to set myself up on every Sunday to have a chance to win, and I know if I do those things, then everything else will take care of itself.

The definition of success is total preparation.

How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.