The will to win. We hear a lot about that. The will and the wish to win, but there isn’t a chance for either one of them to be gratified or to have any value unless there has been a will to prepare to win: the will to prepare for service, to do the things that build and develop our capacity, physical, mental, and moral.
Preparation—that is the big thing, whether for the game you are to play or for the business or profession you are to enter. A one horsepower person cannot do much to achieve a great result. He/she must develop by preparation, so that when the test comes they have something to rely upon and is able to make use of it.
~ Fielding H. Yost
Yost was the head football coach at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for 25 seasons at the beginning of the twentieth century.
