Kurt Elling Quotes

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

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.

My thing has always been preparation. When I was a performer on the roster as one of the guys on a weekly, full-time schedule, I was always prepared.

In spring training, I just try to spread everything out so I can be 100 percent before the season starts. I don't want to start feeling like I don't get it once the season starts. I want to be 100 percent on Opening Day.

You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.

I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.

I felt good in all my fights. It's all in the preparation. I prepare myself for all of them. And I felt good in all my fights.

I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.

I always sleep really well, particularly before a race, when the adrenaline's pumping.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.

I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.

There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.

Preparation is not just about batting and bowling. You have to consider lots of things - the travel, the weather, the heat, the light, the sounds. You have to be comfortable with everything.

It's tough when you don't know if you're going to play or when you're going to play. But keeping the consistency and keeping in shape is important.

I've always felt that the more prepared I am, the more confident I would be within the telecast.

I know my body better. I know how to be more professional. I know how to get myself ready for the games, which is the most important thing.

What you do on the field can only be a positive if you take care of what you need to off the field, and that means recovery and refueling.

It's important that I'm always playing fresh and that I'm ready to go rather than just playing because I feel like I have to.

Because I am of a generation and slightly old-fashioned, my bottom line belief is what you do is you rehearse and you work and you own it. Of course, you hone it during the first few performances but once you have it honed, not that you must ever assume it is perfect, part of the craft is being able to repeat that.

I believe your best preparation is to just get your rest and just go out there and continue to do what you've been doing, not to try to do anything uncharacteristic that you haven't been doing. That's my main thing.

I prepare the same for every opponent.