Michael Shanks Quotes

I'm the kind of person who always has a Plan B. I don't want to go into anything without another option.

I have a Plan B, Plan C, but my Plan A is working, so I'll keep doing that.

I'm always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Always have a backup plan.

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

I like to write from scratch most of the time, but I like to have a backup plan just in case.

You need to plan your bowling. Whenever things are not working for you - like, if you don't get swing - then you have to be ready with a backup plan and try something else.

One cannot be dogmatic about the right solution.

As far as routine goes, one of the things we talk about all the time is that if you have a routine that's great. But you can't be like married to it because the bus could break down on the way to the arena, you could get stuck in traffic, you may be sick that day and you may feel better by game time.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Great teams always have a Plan B. Look at Barcelona. Their Plan B is to stick to Plan A

There is always a plan B.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

If what you're doing isn't working, change it.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

I've put myself in this position where I haven't set myself up with a Plan B. I don't have a safety net; it's all in.

Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to per­severance.

There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.

You say this victory is dangerous. I say that today no one can yet tell if it's dangerous, that today I don't see the risks you mention. If, however, those risks should become reality...I'll act in accordance with the new reality.

I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.