Alex Rodriguez Quotes

You can't be nervous when you know your steps.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

I've always felt that the more prepared I am, the more confident I would be within the telecast.

You need to ensure you are ready and impress when called upon.

You can only be that confident if you know you've done the work.

You can't go out and press. That's when you're going to make mistakes. Just act like you've done it before.

Before I do anything, I practice it for a while, and then when I know it's the bomb, then I'm gonna present it to everybody.

Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

Whenever you go into an audition, you have to be as prepared as possible.

You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.

Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

It's really fun to have the spotlight and feel ready for it. Not in a conceited way. But just like, 'Man, I think I'm going to give you what you need.'

I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.

I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

Work on your game. Block everything else out. Don't worry about your brand. Work on your game. So you can come into the league ready and prepared.

Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

I'm confident about playing on the big stage.

I know myself so well. So I know if I'm not confident in the play, it's not going to be a good play.

Scoring is easy for me.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

I'm at the top, top, top of my game now. I'm so happy to be on that stage, I'm in control of it, and I love every minute of it. I walk onstage in rehearsal and I start to smile. And so I just don't care what anyone else is doing. Do what you want, say what you want. Nobody else can do what I do onstage. Nobody.

The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe, with the proper things around me, and everything I need as a performer; band, and all that kind of stuff, I still feel to this day there's no one that can touch me. Still.