Quotes About Strategy

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I know my background was defense, but I'm not a defensive coach who wants to win 9-7 every week.

In the Premier League you know you'll play a certain amount of matches so you can always think 'I'll put it right next week' if you lose.

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

There's always plays that Coach Reid just draws up every single week. I always say that they always work. He just gets on the board in his room and just starts drawing plays. The possibilities are endless.

Preparation for Monaco is a little different: you definitely build up a little bit slower throughout the weekend and pace yourself. It's important to find the limit carefully.

I think, as competitors, you always wanted to try and gain an advantage, and you have that opportunity to go out and grab those bonus points and gain as many as you can throughout the year.

I never saw my career as a journey with a beginning, middle, and end, with high points and low points. It is just a whole, big mass of experience, and I take each experience as it comes. I don't strategise.

India is a large market where our focus will be to grow faster than the market and add few percentage points to our market share every year.

I just try and make the right play. It led to me leading the country in points and assists.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

Sometimes I just put some first serve in, which, on break points, it's pretty important.

I think, mainly, you always look to keep your strong points in the team.

Of course we go to Montreal to work as hard as we can and do the best we can, the same way we go everything, but I think if we always think we need to score points, we start forgetting about the stuff we have to do to get there.

For us, it's about winning. How do you do that? You score more points than the other team.

This is the difficulty with not picking up points away from home: the home games become that much more critical.

What makes me a selfish player? Because I shoot the ball? I'm supposed to shoot the ball. That's how you score points. Those points go on the scoreboard for the whole team.

I think a lot of success I have had in the past is I have been able to work points, find the right time to come forward.

I want to get to the 'pick your poison' type of situations like James Harden.

Whenever I guard a guard, I don't want to reach too much, but I will poke at the ball once to get him thinking.

Life is a poker game, and everybody has to show their cards.

I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.

I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than the maths of the thing.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.