Scott Brooks Quotes

I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

If I know my showboating bothers you, I'll keep doing it. If playing with your mind is part of the arsenal, and I know it works, then I'm going to continue doing it.

In boxing, there are lot of things that happen where they try to slow down the process and try to get to the other team, trying to get into our heads.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.

Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

I don't play mind games.

Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.

It's important to get under your opponent's skin and let them know that you are coming for them out in the middle. When you do that, half the battle's won!

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.” “What . . . what game?” “The only game. The game of thrones.” -(Littlefinger)

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.

Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

I don't like people that try to psyche other people out.