The World Cup is a competition in which everything needs to work to your advantage. Players need to be fit, decisions have to go in your favour, and details such as a red card can cost a team dearly.
The NBA tries to be about flash. But real fans recognize the guy who makes things happen.
I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten years. You have like, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, Nicolas Ghesquière, Anna Wintour, David Stern.
I've always felt wingers, more than any type of player, can change a game.
That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
In a World Cup, the girls at Lyon are probably the ones that are going to change the games, and I know them inside out.
NBA teams like to see guys who can help a team win a game in a lot of fashions.
I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.
Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.
It's like Barcelona who have Messi. He decides games with his attacking play; Oblak resolves them with his saves.
Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.
The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.
In order to improve our side, we need players who can make the difference.
Frank Sinatra changed people's approach to singing. Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, van Gogh, they were all part of movements that allowed people to think about their craft differently. They changed the game. These people changed the game.
I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft
The great all-rounders were not considered part-timers in one particular department. They could turn games at any stage and on any surface.
Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.
The guys who play in midfield and up front are the ones who decide games.
The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.
There's something nice about being part of a trailblazing group. It's hard to look at myself that way because I look at Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoops and Rebecca Lobo and Dawn Staley in that way.
There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.
Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.
There are always crucial, decisive players in every side who make the difference and do not necessarily depend on others.
In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.
