Quotes About Decision-making

When you're a point guard, man, if you're not up to par, you're in a lot of trouble.

I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.

As a point guard, you don't really have to score. The only time you have to score is when you have to score.

The point guard is the most important position on the court. They often have to be the best player, not by choice but because that's what the game demands as far as all the thinking you have to do and picking and choosing when to score or pass, things like that.

As a point guard, I'm a coach on the floor. I know that.

No amount of data will tell you if a feature should be in the product, because it doesn't exist. You need to have a very clear leader with a clear point of view... otherwise, you get a mishmash of features and stuff that doesn't make a lot of sense.

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.

The only way to conduct an effective collaboration is to debate the things upon which you disagree. If one doesn't manage to bring the other around to his point of view, then whichever collaborator feels the most passionate about the thing being debated ought to get his way.

I like to be close to the players and listen to what they've got to say and feel. Then I make decisions from a coach's point of view, thinking about what's best for the team.

As the director, you are the organiser who has to have all the answers. You are the person with maximum clarity.

I don't take up too many projects at a time. I choose with care. I guess that clarity comes because my parents are from the industry.

That's management. It's a social job as much as anything else, finding out what people are like, seeing through them. There have been good players and not-so-good players who I have moved along because I thought there would be a clash of character.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

I know sometimes the shots look a little crazy when I'm taking them early in the shot clock and stuff like that.

Reading what a good shot is, based on time and score of the game, based on the shot clock, based on my position - there's a lot of things that go into it. It's a lot of things that you think about based on when to shoot it or when not to.

When you're a manager it's different from being a coach.

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

I like to play with my back to the goal, but my colleagues have to tell me when I'm alone or how much room I have so I can choose to pass or to go straight for the goal.

Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level.

Not many college students know what they want to do.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.

The captain is not in total command of the match. The man who is possessing the ball at a given time is the captain.

You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.