Quotes About Execution

Getting through the reads in an efficient manner. I don't want to stay on receivers too long to where a bad decision is made.

When you're critical of yourself and your play, you just look at your reads, you look at how fast you can get the ball out.

When it was time for me to get in the ring, I was ready.

When there's something we weren't prepared for on the football field, you have to be able to use your mind, be creative, communicate, get lined up and get ready to do the play, get ready to execute.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one.

Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

To be a proactive person, you must learn to say no to most ideas and opportunities so you have the mental and physical bandwidth to execute the realistic business plans you have already mapped out.

You can't think; you just gotta do things.

Most people don't grab the right ideas or don't know what to do with them.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

A great idea is not enough.

You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

It doesn't matter how tough you are. It doesn't matter how smart you are or what a great leader you are. None of that stuff matters if you can't put the ball where you have to put it.

We need to be aware of what we need to do at every moment... and we have to manage the game; that's the art of a great team.

My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.

I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.

At the end of the day, a point guard's got to do his job.

I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama.

In carpentry, they say, "Measure twice, cut once." With data, "Think twice, calculate once.