Quotes About Execution

The time to hurry is in between shots. It's not over the shot. It's timing how people walk. You have to add that to the equation. If you've got somebody walking slow and they get up to the shot and take their 20 seconds, what's the aggregate time for them to hit that shot in between shots? That's what really matters. It's not the shot at hand.

People think that a good passer is a flashy passer. But that's not a good pass. It's just a flashy pass. A good passer is someone who's gonna hit the guy right on the hands, and the timing is correct. You pass late, and it's not a good pass. You pass too early, it's not a good pass, either. If it's off-target, it's not a good pass.

Of course it's great to be able to extend plays and know where to go when plays break down. But plays are schemed up for dropbacks and timing and things of that nature. So I feel I do that at a very high level.

I think that's when a good receiver becomes a great receiver. If you know what's going on with the defense, you play faster. If you don't know what's going on, your timing will be off and you're not going to make plays.

Timing is everything for me, especially.

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

With me, I come in the ring and start thinking right away. My thought process is just to put a guy down. I'm like a technician and learn to break it all down - from head to toe.

You watch the great quarterbacks like Peyton Manning and Drew Brees and Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers. They all play so fast, but it's under control because they know what the defense is presenting to them before it happens. It allows them to anticipate things a little quicker, and that makes all the difference in the world.

it's not the thought that counts. In this world, it's the action that counts.

The people had fallen silent at the striking of the clock, the coming of the chaplain; now I heard them all start up with hisses and with hoots— that, I knew, was for the hangman. I heard the very spreading of the sound about the crowd, like oil on water.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

Anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn has noted the following: Every culture has a concept of murder, distinguishing this from execution, killing in war and other justifiable homicides. The notions of incest and other regulations upon sexual behavior, the prohibitions on untruth under defined circumstances, of restitution and reciprocity, of mutual obligations between parents and children—these and many other moral concepts are altogether universal.17

Is it better to invest time in making a big masterful plan or instead to start immediately and figure it out as you go?

Most of the work of project management is correctly prioritizing things and leading the team in carrying them out.

At the heart of the debate over how to overcome the challenges of shipping good things is an idea referenced in the title of Eric Raymond's book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.1 The book, which is about observations on making software, raises a central question that is relevant to all work: Is it better to invest time in making a big masterful plan or instead to start immediately and figure it out as you go?

Too many would-be beautiful businesses that could reinvent markets and create substantial value live only in PowerPoint documents, never to be launched.

You can launch your company with tremendous passion for the business. You can execute your vision flawlessly. But if you don't have a plan for learning, you won't be able to keep up with a constantly adjusting market, and you can become irrelevant very quickly.

so what's your big idea?

The key to success as an entrepreneur is finding an opportunity, and when you find it, executing like crazy.

You've got that motherly concern in your eyes, Jean. I must look like I'm hammered as shit," said Locke. "Actually you look like you were executed last week.

I must look like hammered shit." "Actually, you look like you were executed last week.

A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow." – GEORGE PATTON