Quotes About Strategy

You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's what I got the most out of this year. I know what other coaches like to do.

If you've got a big man who scores the ball, you've got to defend, and if you've got a shooter, you've got to pick and choose who you're going to defend.

I gotta continue within the offence and just understand it, pick and choose when to attack and things like that.

I never picked an opponent.

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

As much as I hate that it's a business decision - like, I'm just picking a school - it really is a business decision. I really don't see anything wrong with waiting it out.

When I first came into the England one-day side and joined the selectors, I wanted to move away from picking what some people called the bits-and-pieces to the best batsmen and bowlers.

You have to bump or throw a block sometimes. Even when it goes wrong, how many times has it worked? I think it's a matter of picking and choosing your battles. You gotta do what you've gotta do to try to get a win.

When we're in the business of picking fights with our allies instead of working with them, that takes away from our strength in dealing with China.

With a rim-runner like Rudy Gobert - not a lot of guys can set picks like he does, run to the rim and go get it way above the glass.

We were always setting picks and screens and looking for an open shot.

When I set picks and rolled to the basket early in my career, either I'd dunk or it'd be an offensive foul where I run the guy over.

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

I understand every piece of business in this league.

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

It's easy to look at where your pieces are now and place the next one nearby.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.