I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

I want to win as much as anybody. But what am I supposed to do? Go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks?

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.

Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.

The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

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

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.