Chi Chi Rodriguez Quotes

Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can't play every hole the same way. I never could.

Any plan is better than no plan.

I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

My game is more a game of thinking than anything else.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

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

I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages.

I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

My impression of Donald Trump, just having been around him. I don't think Trump needs a lot of advisers. I don't think Trump's sitting up there not knowing what he thinks, not knowing what he thinks is best. I don't think that as these things come and go, he runs around, "What do you think I should do?" I think what happens is he makes up his mind he wants to do something and then asks people how's the best way to make it happen. He goes and talks to the military.

Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.

I sit and think with a drink about how I'm gonna win.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.