Quotes About Strategy

The goal is to hit your stride, stay in the hunt and be playing your best football in December.

Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.

I try to come in with a focus to stop my man and win the game. I'm always trying to be ready to catch them off their strides by being physical enough without getting fouls.

I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

If I am playing 18 ball, I aim to see how I can get my strike rate to 150-160. After 6-14 overs, you need to break down, that if you play half balls, then how much runs you need to get on the board.

When I was growing up, I played a lot of ten- and 12-over games, and I would bat in the middle order. I got only ten-odd balls to face, and I tried to score as much as I could. I applied the same approach in domestic and international cricket, and people were appreciating my strike rate being more than 80 or 90 in Test cricket.

Obviously, when I go in at No. 11 it stands to reason that we will have a better chance of scoring runs or batting out time if the batsman at the other end takes most of the strike. That's because, as my place in the order suggests, he is a better batsman than me.

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.

Anytime you can see a hitter and face a hitter, you gain knowledge, and you gain that experience. Whether they hit a homerun off you, or you strike them out or whatever it is, it's information.

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

Strike rates depend on the surfaces you play on.

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

If there's a runner on third with less than two outs, I clearly do not want to strike out.

Everyone likes to strike while the iron is hot. That's a philosophy I've always liked.

If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring.

When you create pressure in the previous over for your partner to strike, it is sometimes as satisfying as picking up a wicket yourself.

Sometimes I have to try to remind myself that I don't try to strike out hitters.

I'm not trying to throw six or seven pitches just to be able to strike you out. I'm trying to do it in three or four. It's the homework and the process between starts that I really focus on to help me do that.

I'm not trying to strike everybody out.

We need to strike better trade deals, but we need to do it in a way that ensures that we are at the table on these deals.

What we need to do is strike the right balance in our teams for all three formats of the sport.