Quotes About Strategy

If performance management were a movie, it will become less 'Gladiator' and more 'Moneyball.'

I won the glare with the bowler every time, because I knew that at some time he was going to have to turn around and go back to his mark.

'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.

Softbank 2.0 means globalisation of Softbank.

Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.

If the U.S. were to not reauthorize the Ex-Im bank, it's in essence unilaterally disarming in a globally competitive environment.

I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

If you don't have a team that can run, you have to put the big gloves on and duke it out.

When you're a young boy, you don't think; you just go for it. When you have more experience, you have to play more with your head.

I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.

If the car is capable of finishing eighth, then I want to get the most out of the car and put it eighth. If the car is only capable of finishing 13th to start the year, then that has to be our goal.

You're always supposed to follow-up any cross or whatever towards the goalkeeper.

I never look at the goalkeeper's eyes.

I hate players who always play the ball back to the goalkeeper.

When we are thinking in an attacking moment, I want the goalkeeper thinking, for that, he is the first. The same when we are thinking defensively - I want our strikers to be thinking, 'We need to protect the goalkeepers.' I want those two moments to feel the same for all players.

First of all, I am and I remain a goalkeeper, but I try to be involved as much as I can and to help the defenders. I try to read dangerous situations in advance.

I consider all aspects of being a goalkeeper as fundamental in the development of the side as a whole.

Sometimes it's natural to do the safe pass, the no-frills thing, to pass it back to the goalkeeper. But I want them to do the daring thing.

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

I say that if the team play well and use me in the right way... the goals will come.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

I didn't really set any goals, just trying to go and play the game.

I love to see goals and attacking play; I want us to be entertaining. But it's no good if you're shipping goals.

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.