James Baker Quotes

You must be loud but you must also be understandable. There’s no point in being loud if you can’t be understood.

A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.

In football you need to be versatile sometimes, because the most important thing is to win games and enjoy your football.

I ain't got much to say.

If your game is to take everything on then you have to stick with that and if it's your game to get out of the way of the short ball then that's what you do.

I've got quite a loud voice.

Communicating and being loud is a big part of my game.

Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.

You can still do all the same things. How you do them is what will shift.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

There are two schools of thought. You can be basic and spend all your time on what your opponents are going to do. Or, you can be very multiple and complex, put a lot of doubt in your opponents' minds and create problems for them with the volume of things you do.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

If you don't tell me what's on your mind, I can't guess