Jalen Rose Quotes

All I can really control is how I prepare and get ready for whatever team picks me.

I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

As an actress, I learned a long time ago that there is a lot of this business that is just out of my hands. All I can really focus on is going to work every day and doing my best.

The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.

It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything.

So many things in sports are out of your control, so I really don't look too far ahead.

I don't know what's going to happen in the future; I just know this: I'm going to continue to give my best effort to the game, stay prepared.

People always say 'I will fight for a world title in a year' but that sort of thing is not down to me. I feel my job is to be ready when it comes, I just need to know it is coming.

You can't do anything to a film post its release. I concentrate on working hard, giving the required inputs for the roles, having discussions with my directors and co-stars. It isn't possible to predict the fate of any film. I don't take failures to heart and successes to my head. These are part and parcel of this career.

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

A good education prepares you well for anything.

Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.

It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Success in life is defined by how well you deal with plan B.

In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.

What happens next is up to you.

Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?