Bill Budge Quotes

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

We need to learn what's working and what's not working.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

I expected results.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

There are games when you do well, and others that go differently.

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

I live or die by how well I act.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

It's the ability to foretell what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year --- and to explain afterward why it didn't happen.

The stat is the score. And when you don't win that score, nothing good happens.

Anyone in the game can make any score.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.

Those who can keep achieving results are the big players at the big clubs. If you cannot get the results, you just can't play and move away.

I either do really well in spring training, or I suck. I either hit .350 or .150.

When you don't have results it is very difficult for players to have that high confidence.

Sometimes you hit the ball on target and sometimes you don't.