Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure.
Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you’re proactive, you focus on preparing. If you’re reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Confidence comes from being prepared.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it.
Some people worry. Others prepare.
The only thing that endures over time is the ‘Law of the Farm.’ You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.
If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.
I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.