Preparation

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."
Joe Paterno

"Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Thomas Jefferson

"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
Herschel Walker

"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."
Muhammad Ali

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable."
Fred Couples

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."
Elbert Hubbard

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
Abraham Lincoln

"If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job."
Tom Landry

"Thorough preparation makes its own luck."
Joe Poyer

"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation."
Robert H. Schuller

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all.. The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender..If you quit now, during these workouts, you’ll quit in the middle of the season, during a game. Once you learn not to quit it becomes a habit."
Vince Lombardi

"Training hard results in easy combat, easy training results in hard combat."
Unknown

"No one was ever successful on talent alone, they had a relentless desire as well."
Unknown

"If I don’t train one I know it, if I don’t train twice the coach knows it, if I don’t train three times everyone knows it."
Unknown
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Ralph Emerson

"I urge you to go onto greatness if you believe its in you. Think carefully though and separate what you wish for and what you are prepared to do."
Unknown

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
Beverly Sills

"It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness. The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort."
Theodore Roosevelt

"The Truth is that Running Hurts. No one gets faster without meeting their personal pain barrier straight on. No amount of junk miles, fun runs or affirmations are going to get you over the hill at the five mile mark in a 10k. However, what will pull you through is solid prep with hard hill runs and interval work."
Manciata's explanation of the Truth about Running

"Just remember this: No one ever won the olive wreath with an impressive training diary."
Marty Liquori

"Nothing will work unless you do."
John Wooden

"The history of war proves that tactics are the most important thing in winning battles. The same thing applies to football matches."
Ferenc Puskas