Quotes About Strategy

Bush is the Liberace of Cuban politics. He knows how to play us. He says every single thing they want to hear.

When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.

Doubles is really exciting. I don't like even comparing it to singles. I get asked a lot of times which one I like better. I think they're two completely different games.

You have some singles that play doubles, but you have doubles players that can beat singles players when they're playing doubles.

The difference between wrestling in singles and in tags, there's just a different art to it. There's a mentality.

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

Part of my mission, if I have that opportunity as leader, is to take Sinn Fein on.

If we are going to win games, we need 11 fit players. Sir Alex Ferguson does not pick half-fit players.

For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

As a captain, you sit on the sidelines and it's evident the best place to bat is up front.

I could sit down with Kim Jong-un, but I will not meet him for the sake of meeting him. I will meet Kim Jong-un when preconditions of resolving the nuclear issue are assured.

I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.

In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.

If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they're sitting on all this inventory they can't sell because the games don't work.

The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger's move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious person.

My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.

Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.

I like to read the situation and play accordingly.

Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.

Game management is very important. Realizing the situation of a match.

I don't go into a game thinking I'm going to run more than I'm going to pass. So it just depends on what the defense is going to bring in the situation of the game and what happens that play.

You can practice against each other, but there's something about a game situation.