Antonio Conte Quotes

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be great, but then it's got to be delivered. It's a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.

It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.

Words are fine, but the most important thing is what happens on the pitch.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

In order to make a good speech you must have something to say and you have to believe it.

The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.

For me, everything is a performance.

I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

It's hard to win people's minds over. The only way to change their minds is to perform.

Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.