Reactive Decision Making Quotes

My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there.

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.

Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.

I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up.

We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

If I simply stay in that moment on the pitch and read the game, I can do so much more.

Billy Jones, positionally, is unbelievable. He's not the fastest guy but he makes up for it by being positionally sound, so I really tried to focus and absorb where he would be in certain situations and just tried to add that in my game.

I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.

There is a lot of instinct that comes with playing hockey and playing a number of games and playing all the way up; you kind of get a feel for what's gonna happen and make plays off that.

At meetings he asks specific questions of his subordinates, and they supply answers; there is no greater discussion. His decision-making has become almsot totally reactive. It is based, not on goals, but on threats.