Quotes About Vigilance

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.

As long as I'm communicating and staying in the game, my concentration is always going to be there.

As soon as you get complacent with where you are in a game, that's where you come and then it bites you in the rear. So you just want to make sure that you're keeping that energy high, when guys are making plays you're getting excited for them and you're staying locked in through all 60 minutes of the game.

When it comes to letting kids out into dark alleys, we understand that they have things to steal. We need to understand that in online life, too.

You can think somebody's stealing from the cookie jar, but if you don't catch him you don't catch him.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Care and diligence bring luck.

The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Women, Thumps decided years ago, had a need to know what people around them were doing every minute of the day. It wasn't curiosity exactly, and it wasn't control. It was more as though they were keeping track of the world so that if anyone hit them with a pop quiz, they'd have the right answer.

I can't look at everything hard enough!

Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.

Be careful," Serge admonished. "It's dumb out there.

Most Floridians understand the danger of leaving children or pets in cars with the windows rolled up, where midday temperatures can reach a hundred and fifty degrees or more. But few give a second thought to cheap, throwaway lighters, which are butane under pressure and can easily explode at those temperatures, spraying flammable liquid all over the interior…

I don't generally go after people offensively, but if somebody comes after me, I will absolutely meet them every step of the way and then some, no question.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

When you become a parent, you're the responsible one and when there are noises around your house, you'rethe one that has to get out of bed and check it out. Before the children came along, I would have sent my wife to go and check out what the creak was.

It's pretty draining, the amount of games I watch on a daily basis. It's pretty much non-stop.

I normally try to drive carefully.

You would notice if your own personal debit card limit shot up to $40 million dollars. And you'd probably call somebody.

It's in the nature of defence that you rarely notice it.