Quotes About Execution

In information technology, money is not the issue. Willingness to implement and execute is the issue.

What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

I'm not going to win games by talking about it. Just by doing it.

You have guys that are all over the field that are making a lot of plays, you'll win a lot of games in the NFL.

Any time you can get the ball back to the offense and they put points on the board, you can win games.

You score runs to win games. That's how you do it.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

To sail successfully, you need to observe with great care. You need to identify what the wind and the water are telling you and then find a way to execute, to reach whatever goal you've set, be that simply making it home or winning a race.

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

The formula to beat the press is simple; it's the execution that's tough. If you have the quality to do so, you pass your way through it. And if you don't, you just boot it over the top. And then it becomes a game of winning 'second balls'.

Everybody thinks you can get by by being Mr. Nice Guy, but that's not what winning programs do. Winning programs have a plan.

Offense is great, but defense wins championships.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Kind of making that leap from a team that wins occasionally to a team that wins the majority of the time, a lot of times just comes down with figuring out how tough it is to win, and then executing down the stretch to do it.

I think there will be one overarching coach for Tests and one-day cricket. I think you need one person in control and in charge of that environment. Also it's important for people to know I am not going to be playing a tracksuited role. The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach as it always has been.

I love it when fighters are textbook.

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

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

I mean, the hardest thing to do, I think, in the NBA, is to put the ball in the hole.

The hardest thing about kicking a kick at the end of the game or end of the half is not letting your excitement get the best of you.