Chuck Knox Quotes

I work a little bit of slower, methodical pace. I'm able to implement certain different styles depending on who my opponent is.

Your rivals study the way you play and find a tactic to counteract your strengths.

I think it's nice to have a variety of lineups and formations to use against different opponents, depending on what they bring.

The game in T20 cricket moves so fast and guys are always putting you under pressure - you can have plans for the likes of Chris Lynn and Glenn Maxwell and try to execute them but they can then do the exact opposite of what you expect, especially Maxwell.

Do not make grand plans. Be flexible.

Our players know that we try to come in each week and put ourselves in the best position to have a chance to win, and sometimes that means some people playing more than others; sometimes it means using different personnel groupings in different weeks.

You always underestimate - rather than be disappointed.

Anything can happen, and you have to be able to understand the reality of the world that we live in.

If you have an opponent who is clearly better than you, then OK, you have something to analyse.

If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.

I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

Boxing and chess are similar. It’s about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to defeat my opponent. It’s about finding the best way. A good boxer has to be variable. He doesn’t just need to know how to punch. He must also know how to protect himself, how to defend, how to avoid the opponent’s punches. Only a complete fighter can become champion.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

It's so funny. I honestly thought every one of those people on the show could beat anyone at any time anywhere. You just have to have a slightly off day or moment or two or you missed a touch of acid. It has nothing to do with credentials. Anyone could've chopped anyone at any time. I had to look at myself as the one who could lose this the most.

That's what's so satisfying about acting. You can come as prepared as you like, but there's no accounting for what's going to come at you from the other actor. That's part of the joy and the play of it. If you don't have that it's a different kind of performance.

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.