Alex Ferguson Quotes

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

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

Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

I know what to do and I go and execute.

Quarterbacks are always ready.

No battle can be won in the study...

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be able to do much.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

I make sure that I'm 100 percent ready to go before I put that tee into the ground.

I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results.

Preparation starts after the game before.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

I am really competitive. I take my basketball very seriously, even though I'm not really that good. I take it very seriously.

In my opinion, there's nothing better than practicing a play all week and then going on the field and thinking, 'This is going to be a touchdown.'

Potential is just potential until you can pull it off, and you need to show up ready to exercise the plan in mind. I've always come from that place in everything I've ever done.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

Over prepare, then go with the flow.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

‎"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.