Quotes About Strategy

I learned that in senior football it's about managing the game. People are playing for contracts and playing for careers, so when you're 1-0 up or 2-0 up, you have to see the game out.

I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.

I like to win the ball back for the team and I can contribute going forward.

In T20, even when you are in form and you feel like you are making good contributions, you are going to only face 30 or maximum 40 balls in the position where I bat in the middle order.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

You control what you do offensively, defensively. You're controlling who you play, how you want to play.

I saw the GamerGate controversy as a way to expand 8chan. I wanted to unseat 4chan and to me it didn't matter how it happened.

All these retailers these days are under pressure. Why? It's because... for the last 30 years, value equaled price. But now, value equals price, convenience, and a little bit of brand.

Running-between-the-wickets is the ability to convert ones into twos, twos into threes, and threes into fours. And to reach the wickets on time.

I spent the best part of 20 years trying to stop people like Chris Waddle from playing. Now I'm convinced that good touch and loads of movement are the way forward.

I'm totally convinced that the battleground of banking is not the front office. The battleground is the back end.

Tactically, I know how to play on one side even though I remain convinced that I can play better through the middle.

I am convinced that you should always play the way you want to play and success will then come on its own - as long as it's a good philosophy.

I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.

The cool thing about me is I've been on the business side for so long. A lot of these guys have been fighting their whole life and haven't done any business.

It is an ambitious agenda, but the approach to Russia should be, 'Confront where we must, but cooperate where we can.'

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

Look, we don't have the luxury of not dealing with China. There are real complexities to the relationship, whether it's the adversarial piece, whether it's the competitive piece, whether it's the cooperative piece.

If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.

Marketing is a core part of anything you do.

Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family.

A lot of playcalls are for the corner 3. I thought that's something I should really work on.

Corner is the easiest three in basketball.

Any time Gronk has been matched up with a corner, he's had a very bad game - and that corner has had a very good game.