Quotes About Strategy

Successful companies hire people.

I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.

Fans have their own idea about who to hire; that's what makes football great.

I'm into hiring smart guys; I'm into hiring guys who can think at a higher level, that can offer ideas.

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

The company has grown so by hiring the right people, and a key person responsible for finding the right people is Ann Marr. Ann is responsible on both ends - finding the people and retaining them.

If you're hiring a manager for two to three years, you need to get it right.

Every coach has his way of working.

We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.

Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he's not big on rotation.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

You've just got to deliver the first blow. In football, you're going to get hit. Don't let someone deliver the hit to you. You've got to deliver the hit to them.

I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.

I don't want a new ball when I am bowling in the subcontinent. I want an old ball that can't get hit out of the ground. I want a ball that when I bowl doesn't have true bounce, so that the batsman can't hit it.

You have to be able to hit the deep balls.

I don't want to lead the league in infield hits because, at some point in my career, I can't get away with it anymore.

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

I see myself as a line-drive hitter first.

If a hitter gets hot, I wouldn't take a hot hitter out of the lineup.

I've always said, even batting leadoff, that I want to be a dangerous hitter.

I'm a line-drive hitter.

I believe that you're a hitter first and you're a slugger second type deal.

I'm pretty close to Miguel Cabrera. We are such different hitters, but at the same time, we're pretty close because we both like to hit the ball middle-away.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.