Quotes About Strategy

I felt when I was gambling that the house always wins, and it was always like, how can I become the house? But when you're a band, you are the house because you can write the songs, you can wear your own clothes, you can pick where your show is. I can choose my own cards, basically.

Andre Ward beat me fair and square on points in a boring fight, a dull affair. Same as when he beat Kessler. Headbutted him to bits, but he knows how to win. He wins ugly, but he knows how to win.

It's like I was taught and I'm always saying it. Offense wins games, defense wins championships.

Sometimes offense wins. Sometimes pitching wins.

That's what Dominick Cruz does. He wins decisions and he has that down to a science. He's great at it.

As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.

Football is not a game about numbers. It's about wins and trying to go out and play better than the other team.

What wins still goes back to who you are as a player and what you do well. If you're a great 3-point shooter, you try to get as many of those shots as you can. If you're a good driver, get in the restricted area.

At the end of the day, we try to get wins. We just go out there and play.

Defense wins at every level.

It doesn't matter who you play against in midfield, you need to try to come out on top and more often than not when a team wins a midfield battle they normally have a good chance of winning the game because that's where a lot of the play goes through.

Defense wins championships. I love being viewed as that guy.

Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

Offshoring is like the winter. You don't ask if it is good or bad - you ask what do you do about it. The answer is you dress warmly.

The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there - the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan was great, but everybody touched the ball, everybody cut, everybody moved. It was just so hard to guard.

Limiting Covid's impact requires us to think differently about confronting respiratory pathogens in the winter.

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

I've enjoyed working on the TV series that I've worked on, in particular something like 'The Wire,' where there was so much time to tell the story and develop a character. I learned from that that it's best not to lay all your cards on the table straight away.

One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.

In college we didn't pass block the way they do in the pros - they played the I-formation at Wisconsin.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.