Quotes About Strategy

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

If I don't need to shoot the ball, I won't do it.

You have to win on the ball.

When you have the ball, you don't have a problem.

I've always thought it was a beautiful game and that the ball should be passed around. I also believe you can create goalmouth excitement without resorting to the long-ball game.

The goals we get against are not really that people outplay us. I think it's the mistakes we make. It's when we have the ball at the back, we lose a few balls sometimes - that's also the risk with the way we play. It's not like they created the chance. We make two mistakes, and then we get the goals against.

Dot balls help build pressure, so even if you are not getting wickets, somebody from the other end is getting wickets, and the job is done.

Playing at fullback it's part of your role to get up and take those high balls.

The last 12 balls you don't have to think too much, just see the ball and hit the ball.

When you have strikers who move a lot, and they give you the chance to play balls for them, it is really good.

I would love to have a Divas Money in the Bank. That would be cool.

If it was... let's say they just banned 170, that it was either 55 or 85, I'd go to 185 before I'd go to 55.

In the bar and restaurant industry, you're always one idea away from your next quarter-million.

This is a pretty barbaric game. You can't really let emotions get into the way.

At Barcelona, it wasn't about winning all the time; it was first about how to win.

If you're going to play the bargaining game, you just need to make the other side mad. You want them to get a little annoyed. Then you know that you've come in with a good price.

I want to get on base every single time I get up there. Whether it's a walk or a base hit, I really don't care how I want to get on base. I just want to be on.

In the postseason, as many ways as you can get on base as possible is big.

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.

That's where my focus is all the time, trying to get on base.

I love second base.

My job has usually been to get on base so others can drive me in.

I don't find that much wrong with baseball.

That's what it's all about - postseason baseball.