Joanna Jedrzejczyk Quotes

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Changing an opponent shouldn't be a problem. It sucks to spend a lot of time preparing for someone and then it changes up, but it's boxing. That happens in boxing and you have to accept that.

In boxing and politics, you cannot predict results. You should be ready to go 12 rounds. But if you win in the first round, you should be ready to be the winner quickly.

The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

For punches I never really choose, I take whatever opportunity is given to me. If it's a left, I'll take it. If it's a right I'll take it.

You can scout people as much as you want. At the end of the day, it's a fight, so you got to be ready for almost anything.

You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn't expect.

I fight with a game plan, but sometimes you have an audible.

I do find that there's a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.

Anything can happen in a fight, and anything can happen in training.

But this is sports entertainment, so things can change on a daily basis. For that reason you have to be ready to go at any time.

I don't fight without being prepared, even when I lose.

I've taken fights on one-day notice.

As for me, I always train for 12 rounds just in case. I don’t train for three, four, one, or 10 rounds - I have to train for 12 because you never know what will happen that night.

I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens.

My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.

Sometimes you know about a job four months in advance. Sometimes you know about a job four days in advance. It's all different, and my thing is just to try to stay prepared. It's like being a boxer. You never know when you're going to get your next fight, so you have to just stay in shape, mentally and physically and creatively.

You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.