You have to be READY to succeed.

from hoopboost.blogspot.com

Here are some thoughts on being "ready." As a player, are you ready to play when the ball is tipped off. As a player on the bench, are you ready when your name is called. As a team, in a close game, when circumstances arrive, are you ready to win the game. As coaches, are we ready for all the challenges that come our way -- dealing with players, practice and game situations, adversity, and yes, even success. A big part of excellence is being "ready" for it.

“I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.”
-Wayne Dyer

“When the will is ready the feet are light.”
-Proverb

“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
-Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens

“If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.”
-Brooks Robinson

“The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things”
-Michel de Montaigne

“Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.”
-Troy Aikman

“Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.”
-Charles Caleb Colton

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
-Benjamin Disraeli

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
-Henry David Thoreau