Quotes About Execution

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.

I have to be better maybe on the weak side of the offense, on closeouts.

You always intend to do this and that, but then you have to go out and do it on the pitch.

I do what I have to on the pitch.

It's one thing trying it in training and another entirely on the pitch.

Play the pass at the right moment - not on a dry pitch and not hitting it hard enough. We don't have to accept it; that was a mistake - no goalkeeper should dribble in this situation.

It's better not to talk but to act on the pitch.

I don't want to talk too much. I want to show it on the pitch.

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off.

You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.

It's having the confidence to go out there and say, 'You know what? I need to go out there and throw those pitches where I need to throw them,' and make it as simple as that.

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.

You realize you're up here for a reason, and no matter who's in the batter's box, I feel like if I can execute my pitches, I can get anybody out. That's what I believe.

Pitching a concept well is certainly important, but ultimately you have to build it.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

If you've got a plan, it's not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Plan the sale when you plan the ad.

Plan your free-kick and imagine where you need to hit the ball. Hang a T-shirt under the bar and try to hit it with the ball.

When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself.

You want to go out there, and you want to be sharp, and you want to execute your game plan and... get it done fast.

If the batsman is playing good shots, you accept it, but it is important that we bowl according to what the plan is and not go off it.

To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts.

My normal way of filming something is, like, one camera, very well planned out, knowing exactly how we're going to get each shot.