Niko Kovac Quotes

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

Sport doesn't work on knee-jerk reactions.

It's not in my character to say what I'm going to do and how it's going to go.

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

There's a part of me that wants to go streak and run outside and jump around and go swim in the ocean and do everything. The other part of me wants to bear down and repeat this kind of performance next year and in the years to come.

There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

I find it tricky to make plans.

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.

Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.