Quotes About Strategy

It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.

I don't want to throw mud at anyone - I really admire Gandhi as a brilliant strategist - but Gandhi was pretty manipulative, you know.

Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.

I realise that I need to be selfish at times as well as smart in decision-making and just not throw away my wicket.

Sometimes people say, 'You've got to go out there and grit your teeth and just throw.' That's never been my style, but I think I need to be a little bit more aggressive instead of counterpunching.

I think if you're talking about 'Jeopardy' style, I'm not afraid to throw the deep ball, even if it might get picked off, so Deshaun Watson I think would be the best comparison.

I know I don't throw very hard anymore, but I'd like to think I can still hurt a guy who's not looking.

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.

In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There's times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you're passing it.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important.

It's football at the end of the day, and throwing the ball is what I love to do the most.

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.

I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

I would say darts is probably 15 per cent throwing. The rest of it is mental strength. Being able to hold your nerve.

You need all four people to be throwing well. You need to be playing the right shots. You just need to be a lot smarter.