Quotes About Strategy

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.