Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.

Even things like dressing, cleaning themselves, eating, handling a knife and fork are difficult tasks. For the staff and also for the patients, it's a stage of the disease where you have to support them a lot with their failing capacities.

Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork.

eating soup with a fork: slow and messy.

There were times when I'd bench players for their lack of effort. We worked very hard on fundamentals, which was the Dodger way. We needed to be more aggressive.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.