Gerrit Cole Quotes

We can't continue to always base our strategy on the fact that the other guy is going to mess up all the time.

You can never in negotiations be totally predictable. The minute you’re predictable, they’re going to figure out how to take advantage.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

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

When you start the game with an ace, it's always better.

But we have seen amazing things, good and bad, happen in this game, so you can never take anything for granted. I certainly don't. There are no guarantees, whether it is good bad or indifferent you just work hard to push the odds in your favour as regards myself and the team.

Edgbaston is a ground where you have to think on your feet because it can vary so much from season to season or session to session.

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.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that if he didn't succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. "Within a year," the man explained later, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly." My philosophy is like that man's. I take the long-range view.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of organizing your thoughts. We use problem-solving; what we call "what-if-ing." What if this happened? What would we do? We go over plan B, C, D, E, F, and whatever else, depending on the criticality of what we're doing. This kind of thing can be applied almost everywhere, even at home.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

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

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.