Bob Costas on spontaneous
Bob Costas5 quotes“You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don’t really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use, and you don’t know exactly where it will apply. So you have to be prepared, but not locked into that preparation.”
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AnonymousAnonymous But yeah I’m very much a spontaneous guy and it’s sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.
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