Quotes About Strategy

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

You play to win the game.

Greg Jackson is a sport killer

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

The score never interested me, only the game.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?

I didn't like the way the game was being played.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.