Quotes About Strategy

I try to be as smart as I can with being a defensive fighter, where I don't as much punishment.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

I don't want just pure roll out of the back four. I want productive mixed play... how many ways can you affect a game?

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

Investing is pure.

There are times when success doesn't make sense on a purely mathematical basis. I've played absolutely perfectly before, put in a masterful performance, and then my perfect play evaporated because one guy lost his mind and got lucky. Of course, I've also won that way.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

I don't just get bogged down in, 'I want to win.' There's something even greater than that. And that's the way that you play the game. I want to play beautiful football. That's our purpose: to go out and play the game at the highest level, play it the right way.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.

I know that I often take risks, but it is always for the purposes of the team.

I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised presidential debate.

Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.

The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda.

As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.

Changing leaders is pointless if the same policies are pursued.

For more than fifty years, the United States pursued a policy of isolating and pressuring Cuba. While the policy was rooted in the context of the Cold War, our efforts continued long after the rest of the world had changed.

We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.

It's important that all around the globe that the United States is pursuing the most effective foreign policy possible.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.