Quotes About Strategy

Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.

We don't plan on winning in August - we plan on winning in November.

Boxers are absolute novices in the clinch.

This is a lifetime job. You don't look at it, you know, now and then. It doesn't really matter. When the market comes down, then I buy my land very cheaply, so I make my money on that.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.

Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.

When I'm talking about a football brain, the very first time the ball's kicked in the air and Lukaku completely outjump's you and you get absolutely nowhere near it, that's when your brain clicks in. You know what you do, let him go and win it.Take a step off and when he flicks it on, guess what, you bring it down on your chest.

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?

Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally different ball game.

If I can be number one in the world without power hitting, then I don't need power hitting. But when I need to, I utilise it well.

We're going to become the number one security company.

You can't make three or four spinners bowl the exact number of overs. You don't see the number of overs bowled by them before you make a bowling change; you see who looks effective and make a bowling change.

If you have been brought up with attacking and trying to get to number two, number three, number four goal, not getting one goal and defend, if that's sort of the mentality that's engraved in you, it's really difficult to do the other thing.

I have a couple of rules. Number one, get competitive. Number two, win a game. Number three, win two games in a row. Number four, win a championship.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.

I'm not worried about good numbers or bad numbers. You worry about the process.

I think United always had a plan for me. They nurtured me.