Quotes About Strategy

It is a cliche to say that you need to take 20 wickets to win a Test and it is the bowlers who get you the 20 wickets.

Once you become more like Madison Avenue, you become acutely sensitive to what's going to annoy your clients.

I've always been on the business side - running P&L and working with clients.

In 1997, my father appointed me CEO but acted as player-coach, keeping busy on long-term clients such as KFC and international travel brands.

The better job we do of getting the right fans in the right seats at the right time, the more money our clients are going to make.

I'm trying to make the box, trying to be more ruthless, more clinical, and trying to decide games.

The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there.

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

I know sometimes the shots look a little crazy when I'm taking them early in the shot clock and stuff like that.

Reading what a good shot is, based on time and score of the game, based on the shot clock, based on my position - there's a lot of things that go into it. It's a lot of things that you think about based on when to shoot it or when not to.

There are incredible decisions made in a 48-minute game with a 24-second shot clock and the last two minutes of a game.

You have to have that balance of scoring and playmaking, and learn how to be a closer.

I'm deeply involved in making the race closer and tighter and safer.

At other clubs I have been, at Juventus, at Barca, we had two 'ships': one for the domestic league and another for the Champions League.

When you play the bigger clubs it's important that when you create chances, you do everything you can to take them.

In a team like Manchester City, Arsenal, and other big clubs, it's quite difficult just to have the same 11 players starting every week.

When you're a manager it's different from being a coach.

When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.

You have a losing team, you change the coach.

You need a long-term coach to be able to win.

The job as a coach is difficult.

The thing that surprised me is you hear a lot about NBA guys, do they really want to be coached? My experience is they really do want to be coached. They want a plan: 'How are we going to win the game?' And they'll follow that plan.