Canelo Alvarez Quotes

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

What we need is to use what we have.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

The Governor is not one who opposes swapping horses while crossing a stream. He will change a horse for a mule, a mule for a goat, and a goat for a shoat. If there is a mane or tail to which to cling, Franklin D. Roosevelt will not scorn to take hold so long as the beast is traveling in his direction.

You've got to deal with the tools you have in hand. I'm a firm believer in that.

My goals for the next part of my life: Whatever I'm handed, I'm gonna make the most of it. If it's good for me, I'm gonna take it.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

You have to use what you have to get what you want.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

I grew up learning to do more with less.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.