Quotes About Execution

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.

The most certain and well-attested fact about Jesus of Nazareth is that he was tried, sentenced and executed by the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate on a charge of high treason. This does not make him unique. Many thousands of Jewish rebels and revolutionaries were crucified by the Roman rulers of Palestine during this period.

You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.

I'm the sommelier of slaying

Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you travel, it is to see everything. Think what a figure you will make when you are asked, How do they execute at Rome? and you reply, I do not know!

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was interested in making. I still do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but the reason I can move quickly is that Ive done the background work first, which no one usually sees. I prepare myself thoroughly, and then when it is time to move ahead, I am ready to sprint.

Vision without implementation is counterproductive.

The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

When all is said and done, more is always said than done.

This is the strategy paradox. The main cause of strategic failure, Raynor argues, is not bad strategy, but great strategy that just happens to be wrong. Bad strategy is characterized by lack of vision, muddled leadership, and inept execution—not the stuff of success for sure, but more likely to lead to persistent mediocrity than colossal failure.