Strategic Placement Quotes

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

I want significant parts of Nato infrastructure, important for the alliance, to be placed in the central Europe.

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

A bullet in the right place can change the world.

No duty ... was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Under our rules of engagement, if I were ISIS, what I would do is collocate my headquarters next to a school or a hospital and ensure that there would be collateral damage. They know our rules of engagement as well as we do. They operate with impunity.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

Paying extra for prime placement can often pay off.

This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the game is on, there's nothing much you can do - you can smoke a cigarette or get nervous, but you can't do much.

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

If I play my home games in Coors Field, I'm probably not going to be doing a whole lot of bunting. If I play my home games in Petco Park or Dodger Stadium, it's probably going to be a more valuable tool.

Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.

Put your good where it does the most.

Whether it's countries or companies, it's about putting the best person in the job who can unite people and create value.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

All you try to do in any system you incorporate is put players in their areas of strength and try to hide and minimize their weaknesses.

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.