Quotes About Strategy

Half the game is 90% mental.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical.

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

75% of baseball is mental the other half is phisical

Ninety percent of baseball is mental, the other half is physical.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it's not working.

The prisoner's dilemma

We don't want a fight, but business dictates we can't be made into fools.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

The game has changed. You can't go into a ballgame saying, hey, we have a great defense and we'll win 17-10. Those days, I think, are generally over, except if the Ravens play the Jets.

A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.

there's the matter of picking the time. There's such a thing as the favorable moment. Determination alone counts for nothing.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Every time I played Isumi he made calm deliberate moves regardless of how the game was going. If he can maintain that in match play he'll always have a vital edge going in.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

[China] is the least concerned about her own salvation. Like a good gambler, she took the loss of a slice of territory the size of Germany itself without a wince.

Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single teacup. So it finds a bull, gets inside its ear and starts buzzing. The bull goes wild with fear and anger, and destroys the china shop. (p.21)

Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single teacup. So it finds a bull, gets inside its ear and starts buzzing.

A single priest often does the work of a hundred soldiers – far more cheaply and effectively.

Russia has been following the schoolyard-bully principle: pick on the weakest kid, and don't beat him up too much, lest the teacher intervene.