Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

If they don't score, we can't lose.

In football, you can't always succeed.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

The 6 Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance

The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers.

I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?

I'm not too worried about points and all that stuff. It's about making the right play.

You've always six teams who are trying to win the title, and the other five have failed. But by word of saying it, it's not failing; it's just the way it is. The last two years, we didn't win it, so it wasn't good enough, but if now we win it, the other teams will say the same.

Whether I win or not, it won't be down to inexperience and hopefully it won't be down to some sort of mental misjudgment.

I know if you're not first, you're last. That's all you need to know.

With experience also comes the understanding that you have to beat the rally before you can beat the competition.

Sometimes results mean something, as there are difficulties, but it depends how you play. You might not win, as you don't create chances, or you might dominate and not take your chances.

It's a sport. Sometimes you lose and sometimes you win.

I just want to win. I want to mess up the draft. I don't want the first pick.

My game plan is always my punching.

I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.

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.

You want to put yourself in the best position to try and win.

The team that wins makes minimum mistakes, and the one which loses, that one makes more mistakes than the other team.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.