Quotes About Strategy

I have to have the mindset of Vito Corleone in everything I do.

I have the mindset of a coach. I have to think, what would a coach think? How would a coach feel if I'm playing a guy a certain way?

I've worked in a lot of elections and it can feel like you're fighting a battle. You get into a mindset of 'we've got to win. If they're doing it, we're going to do it too.'

When I see somebody, I try to beat him on both ends of the floor. It's the game within the game that you've always got to win. That's always been my mindset. That's how I was taught how to play the game. That's how I learned. And that's what I enjoy.

Sometimes you can't even defend 350 and sometimes, you can defend even 250. It's all about mindset.

The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.

You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.

Politicians try to make friends, build constituencies, and avoid gaffes. Trump does the opposite, seeking out land mines in order to detonate them.

I always just wanted to play my game, minimize mistakes so I had the best chance to make a roster.

I know people think I'm just the Diego Sanchez from the Gilbert Melendez fight. Hook, hook, hook. A crazy brawler. But I realized the best possible fighter would not get hit. He'd close the distance and minimize the chances of the lights going out. I want to fight as long as I can and be as healthy as I can.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

I spend most of my time thinking about - whether I am making the minimum or a big number, salary-wise - how can I be competitive as long as I have an opportunity to play.

As a former economy minister, I can't not think about economic growth. The central bank should also think about this but through its own instruments.

Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers.

I now know what to do; I know how decisions can be made. I know how you can drive ministers and their departments to actually make decisions and bring results.

Obviously, defence is very sensitive and very challenging ministry.

There's obviously different roads you can go down. And I think if you study it, how teams are built - and I went through this in Minnesota - the draft is critical, free agency is critical, player development is critical and trade opportunities are critical.

When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.

I define game theory as the study of how rational individuals make choices when the better choice among two possibilities, or the best choice among several possibilities, depends on the choices that others will make or are making.