Quotes About Strategy

I always thought there was more to basketball than just scoring the ball.

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

Scripts don't get movies made.

In L.A., I think Sean McVay is one of the best play callers there is in the NFL, and I don't see him giving that up anytime soon.

When you're taking on a Sean Dyche team, you know what's coming.

I think about the next season right away.

You know how things go in football. Seasons are long, and you have to see how things progress.

You have to let the team develop. You can't say, 'Oh, I got empty seats, I'm going to change the team.' It just doesn't work that way.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

If I watch a basketball game, I don't really care if a guy hit a three-pointer with three seconds left. I mean, I can like that. But I'm more interested in who drafted him and what makes him special.

I tell my team: if we win the ball, I want to see the ball in the goal in eight seconds. That's my philosophy.

Statistically, the chance of creating a goal is higher within 10 seconds of winning the ball.

My whole philosophy is 24 seconds or less. I don't care if it's seven or 10 or 20, we just have to get one good shot in those 24 seconds and that's what we'll do.

I'm not the guy who's been in the huddle with 1.7 seconds left to go.

I saw Cruyff at 36 and the way he played was interesting because he was so quick to understand situations. Football can still be very nice at that age because even though you are not as strong or as quick, you can still see things that others see two seconds later.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

I don't have any secrets. I know my style of football and sometimes it's pretty simple.

The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

You cannot plan for the Champions League: the competitors are always overwhelming. It is a big new challenge every year.

I know how to finance something. It's easier today because, as you're more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry's public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it.

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.

I've always been obsessed with marketing and media. I always wanted to be a business brand owner. I wanted to create things.