Quotes About Strategy

Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.

Spears thought he had taught the aliens the meaning of fear./ [The aliens] had merely discovered the virtue of patience.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'

Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

You can't win a game if you don't score any points.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.

Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser.

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds.

Business is the most exciting game.

Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it.

Football's all about 90 minutes

Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live.