Quotes About Analysis

I'm not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it.

Whenever Germany lose or play badly, there are 1,000 reasons. And no matter how many questions there are, we will never make everyone happy.

I enjoy wicket-keeping in the shorter format. I think when we are bowling first, it gives me an idea of how the wicket is behaving.

When I'm working in theatre I never go to the bar with the other actors; I go home and think about what I did wrong.

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

I used to sit on the editing table to see where I may have gone wrong because after editing, only the good parts go on screen.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

Video analysis is big for me. Through video, you see good things and bad things and can show players how to improve.

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sometimes a digar is just a cigar

Parfois un cigar est seulement un cigar comme dit Freud, mais aussi Clinton !

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Great intellects are skeptical.

A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

MCO-Modern Chess Openings. It lists all the best open-moves in chess, thousands and thousands of variations. That is, what masters think

The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.

That's what Dominick Cruz does. He wins decisions and he has that down to a science. He's great at it.

Even the wins that I've experienced, I've spent a lot of time reflecting on everything that went into it: where I could've improved, where I did well, what was expected and how that came out, what was unexpected and why did it occur.

Intelligence officers are a peculiar lot. Whether they are active or retired, their brains are wired for a completely different way of seeing the world around them.

Here's my take on Andy Kaufman... For Kaufman, comedy was a skill that was open for examination. He didn't just do comedy, he deconstructed it like it was a transistor set. He pulled out all the wires and switched them around, often in front of our very eyes.

I enjoy the process of assessing, analyzing it and even as a professional I still think it's very wise to allow the fan in you to continue to remain alive. The professional always has to come first, but the fan in you allows you to relate to what people are watching.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its success. We looked at what was working and why it was working.