Diego Costa Quotes

I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

The No. 1 rule you're taught as a receiver: You've just got to watch the ball. You hear about the guy who was lucky. But the guy who was lucky got an opportunity, and he was prepared for it. Sometimes the ball falls your way, and, you know, we'll take it.

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

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

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.

Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.

We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

I think it is important to grab the moment and be ready when the opportunity is in front of you, but people may not be ready when that moment arrives.

I think I get going because I try not to put added pressure on myself because a lot of times, you can be very good at what you do, but when you get ready, you have to be prepared to get it going.

We arrived at the 2002 World Cup with two titles, very calm, well organised, maybe missing a bit of concentration. But the only truth is on the pitch. The dangers are there.

I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.

The Premier League is so competitive so we have to be very attentive, very focused and not relax in any way - especially when it is thought to be a winnable game.

Penalty kicks are so much about confidence and your mentality going into them. If you go walk up to a kick and you're not sure where you're gonna place it, or you're feeling a little uneasy, that's when you often miss it.

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

You've got to really check on what you're doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get carried away with the artistic-ness of the endeavor and don't quite have their game face on when the time comes. It's always a pretty costly mistake.

Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.