In missionary WORK, as in all else, preparation precedes power. ENCOURAGEMENT to PREPARE while still very young can make a TREMENDOUS difference.

It may be that the very qualities that HELP people get ahead are the ONES that make them ill-suited for managing CRISES. It's HARD to PREPARE for the worst when you think you're the best.

Being involved in sports, being an OWNER in sports, NOTHING can PREPARE you for that, I THINK we've seen that.

I'm not saying I'd walk through EVERYBODY. There's some GREAT fights for me, though, and I'd put on a hell of a show with a lot of the FIGHTERS in the top 10. My pressure is SECOND to none, and a lot of them don't have any way to prepare for what I'm going to be bring.

No matter how much you PLAN and prepare, THINGS can STILL GO WRONG.

We are now at a POINT where we MUST educate our children in what no one knew YESTERDAY, and prepare our SCHOOLS for what no one knows yet.

Looking BACK now, I realise that belonging to the family of a labourer actually helped to prepare my body for boxing. There were MANY times when my family didn't have enough food or warm CLOTHING to go AROUND. All this MADE me physically, as well as emotionally, tough.

I did not know how to paint a MURAL. I did not know how to prepare the SURFACE. There was nobody from the RENAISSANCE around who COULD advise me, and I did the best I could.

As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no WORKING knowledge of what students studied in previous YEARS, how can we BUILD on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in LATER grades, how can we PREPARE learners for future classes?

There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their NEIGHBORHOOD or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to ATTEND a GOOD school that will prepare them for life's challenges.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they COLLECT them, ADD them, raise them to the nth power, TAKE the CUBE ROOT and prepare wonderful diagrams.