Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I learn the whole script before I show up.

I am trying to be a lot more careful - and to not miss easy balls.

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

I don't put nothing out if it's not ready.

We do about 600 saves in a training week, just for that one save on a match day. That's why you've got to be in the game at all times.

You just have to be prepared because in the Premier League, you are not always going to have more than once chance to score. When it comes your way, you have to be ready to take that chance. If you're not calm, you know it might not come again.

I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

I get very intense: I get to the show five hours early. If we're on at 8 P.M., I'm there at 3 in the afternoon.

You have to be sharp when the camera's rolling. I want to be totally unselfconscious, like a child playing. I do as much prep as possible so I can lose myself for those seconds.

You can't take any team lightly.

You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

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

Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you.

You can never know your lines well enough, and you better listen.

If I had my way, we'd rehearse things to death.

It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds' thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.

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.

I have to learn the plays before I can worry about getting passes thrown to me.

During the season, I'm always locked in one gear, ready to play basketball, always keeping my guard up.

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.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

I know I have to be ready for every single ball, every pass, every challenge. Everything has to be at 100%.

I make sure that I'm 100 percent ready to go before I put that tee into the ground.

Things are never easy against whoever you play, which is why every game you have to be totally at it, on your mettle, and totally focused and concentrated.