What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.
“Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.”
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”