Quotes About Strategy

In the late '90s and early 2000s, basketball was more about making your defender look stupid than scoring. Seriously. You could miss every layup, so long as you turned an ankle or buckled a knee.

No more flying knees against Fedor Emelianenko, no more getting back with my hands down like how it was against Rogers. I just can't do that anymore.

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out.

I don't try to knock out people.

I'm not out to knock anybody out, even though knockouts are cool.

I don't like going to decisions. I always try to finish people, knock them out, beat them up, and that's always the game plan.

I don't go into a situation trying to knock somebody over. It's just the way I play: physical.

My jump shot is the key thing. Guys go on the pick and roll and will force me to knock down shots.

When I was an amateur, I would go to knock guys out in the first minute. When you get experience, you know it doesn't work like that.

If UFC sends me the contract and I fight Jon Jones, me and my team will find a way to beat him. Of course, I would try and knock him out, but I think it would be a similar fight to mine with Israel.

Defenders tend to leave me open on the elbow and when I step out, so it was only the smart thing to do to start to knock down the shots so they can't leave me open up there.

Floyd's defense is very good, and at times it is hard to hit him. That's why I want to knock him out.

GGG is known for his knockouts. I knock out people, too, but I'm a better boxer than him.

Having your hands up doesn't stop you from getting knocked out and there are a lot of advantages to having your hands down. It's also more exciting because it looks very impressive from the fans' perspective, which is a big factor in the entertainment business.

I didn't stick with my game plan, I didn't take Rogers serious and the result, he knocked me out in less than 20 seconds.

In MMA, I believe that when a fighter knocks someone down, you have to finish him. It's not boxing, where you have a ten count; you have to finish him.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

Whatever knuckle ball I have bowled, I wanted batsmen to go after that. That way, you can get wickets, and that's one of the main reasons why I have been successful in power plays.

I would not say that the North Koreans will do anything that the Chinese want them to do.

Whitaker is much better. De La Hoya hits hard, and he's fast, and he comes in with a lot of force. But he has to learn how to fight, and Whitaker is very difficult.

The label does what's good for the label. Always.