Quotes About Strategy

When I'm not training or playing, I'm watching football or watching something football-related on my phone, or about our next rival.

To get past a rival you have to be smart.

If you are in business and you can do something to get ahead of your rival business, you are going to do it.

We try to study our rivals so we know where to improve.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted.

Guys like Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal know how to win matches, they don't need to have as much confidence as other players.

Rafa and Roger, they have completely different games.

My role is to play out the full overs.

Yes, fashion adds more risk, but you don't have to have as much of it to keep the business rolling.

I like working in those dark, smoke-filled rooms in the back. That's what I'm good at.

In a situation like the Rumble, I'm looking around constantly and keeping my back against a rope as much as possible so I can see what's going on.

When you rotate, you have to get the balance right. When you rotate and you win, it's great but when you rotate and you don't win, that's when the problems start.

You pick guys in the first round - whenever you pick guys - you pick them for a reason.

When you're fighting five rounds, I know I gotta move a lot.

In five rounds, the guy who is better prepared is going to win the fight, so I like the idea of a five-round fight.

A lot of guys would prefer to go the business route by getting as much as they can for the least amount of risk than to actually put everything on the line.

You can work on routes all day in practice but in the game what it comes down to is if somebody is open or not. You kind of go through your progressions and go through it that way.

Every time I run a route, I try to make it seem like I'm running a different route than I'm actually running so I can get open.

I'm going to take whatever route I can take to win a world title.

What I have to do to make sure I don't lose some games in a row; I don't know.

To win the Royal Rumble, you don't want to go over the top rope, obviously. But game-play-wise, hopefully you draw a later number.

It doesn't matter if you've got the best team in the world, you can't play rugby on your own try-line.

In business, my head needs to rule over my heart.