"Failing to prepare is preparing for failure."

If you can out-prepare them, you can outperform them.
-Ron Shapiro (consultant and special advisor to team owners, coaches, CEOs, and GMs.)

Too many people don't put enough emphasis on preparation. Everyone wants to just go out and play with out putting near enough time into learning in practice. Since I have been in college I have often heard, "For every hour that you are in class you need to study two hours." Now lets be honest, not too many people in college actually abide by this rule, but who knows how much better they would be in the classroom if they did. Jim Wilson, former head coach of the Buffalo college football program from 1932–1951, said "I constantly stress process over outcome. In other words, don't worry about the exam. Just do your homework." Very good quote if you ask me. If a student does his homework (and really does it and doesn't just fly through it to get it done) then he won't have to worry about the exam at all. He will have practiced all the skills learned in class to the point that he has them down pat. The exam will simply let him show what he has learned. That's the way we should treat sports. If we show up and learn in practice (and don't just go through the motions) then the game will simply be the time to show what we have learned. There have been many times that the team with the most amount of talent didn't win the game, the team that was better prepared for battle did.

Failing to prepare is preparing for failure. -John Wooden