Quotes about scheming (15 Quotes)




    Soon another test would come. He must be ready for it. So he sat, but it was not mindless meditation but mindful scheming that filled him. In a contest like this, there could be no second-place winner. To be second was to be last and to be last here was to be dead.

    I think we've had a good spring. We've progressed, I think, in virtually every area. Spring is all about fundamentals and technique. It's not about out scheming each other offensively or defensively. It's about making every player on your football team better fundamentally and technique-wise and I think we've done that.

    All the scheming and plotting in the world won't result in something lasting, transcendent. Anything that's authentic, that's real, comes in the form of a gift. Even if by accident.


    It all goes to the players. There's not a lot of scheming going on, so it wasn't the coaching. I think it was purely to the ability of those players.


    I've known Rich since he was a kid and he definitely was my choice to take over the program. I can remember coaching Rich as a freshman in high school and even back then he was busy scheming plays and trying to think of new patterns that would work on the field.

    Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle and delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

    It would have been a good resignation speech for a president leaving office because of illness, or for one who had lost congressional support because of differences over policies. It was not the speech of a president who had violated his constitutional oath and duty by obstructing justice, by abusing the power of his office, by transforming the Oval Office into a mean den where perjury and low scheming became a way of life.

    My mother always said he was a very nice, endearing man, unlike his portrayals in the movies (as a child-hating, scheming, mean-spirited person), which I think was a product of him trying to get a laugh, ... Dad always described him as tremendously alert and ambitious. He had a hard shell, but underneath he had some softness.



    Without Richard, that put a toll on us. Teams started scheming us differently. They didn't have that X factor to worry about. Teams try to run away from him, double him and everything, and that allows the other defensive linemen to make a lot of plays.

    They don't arrive at the Commons fully formed. But they're more formed than they used to be. They don't just sit there for 10 years. They're all immediately scheming and positioning.



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