Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‚shooting an unarmed child,‘ when that ‚child‘ was beating him bloody.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

Posture for combat is so vital.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn’t to take someone down to the ground – the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That’s what the goal is.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

My business is to prevent the future.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.