Mickey Arthur Quotes

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

Every competition is different... You can't plan for everything that happens.

Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

I've learned to not forecast anything beyond the year, because when I went to Stanford, I originally wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. So it's just hilarious to look back at all of the things I wanted to do.

Sometimes it's tougher against bad teams because you can't really get a read on them.

You never know what's going to happen in the NFL. That's probably the thing I've learned most - expect the unexpected and go from there.

I don't look further than next year because in our world, anything can happen.

It's always more fun when something happens outside of a script.

In some times of the game, you have to be more simple.

In a game, you never know what chance you're going to get, so I try and cover all bases and make sure I'm ready for that chance when it comes.

Sometimes the ball isn't always going to bounce your way. But you've got to find a way to affect the game.

You can't control injuries, can't control guys getting fired and stuff like that.

Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government.

I like to keep teams off balance.

I learn something new every game. Every game is always different, no matter how you try and think about it beforehand.

I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.

The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.

Luck is not a business model.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.