Poor Preparation Quotes

I look back at the first Groves fight, and it was all so bad, so wrong. Everyone was telling me it was going to be easy, the bookies, everyone. Like an unprofessional fool, like an idiot, I listened to them. I didn't give myself the best possible chance.

Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11.

I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.

Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well.

I trained really badly during the first 10 years of my sporting career.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

Obviously, when you drop a ball early in the game, it could be worse. You can go on to drop many more balls or stuff like that.

He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.

For my training camp against George Groves my main sparring partner was a 6ft 7inch cruiserweight who fought nothing like George. It was just wrong. Wrong preparation. I was as fit as could be, but strategically I didn't prepare right.

I'm not a good storm-outer... because I forget stuff.

It's one thing to get beaten by a side who are a lot better than you, it's quite another to know you've thrown victory away in a game you should have won.