Quotes About Strategy

You can lose a game with the kicking game faster than you can with offense and defense.

I think you want to play complementary football - offense, defense, special teams.

Every year, you try to evolve a little bit. You try to introduce new elements to your offense.

Offense, defense - on both ends of the floor - figuring that out. I'll keep watching the film and see where I can keep getting better.

I'm going to play with one goalkeeper, obviously, one defender, one midfielder and two attackers, very offensive because we need to score goals.

When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.

I love offensive coaches.

I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.

Bringing in a guy like Jordan Howard is going to help us immensely: a guy that you can give the ball to behind five really good offensive linemen and say, 'Go to work.'

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.

It's an offensive league.

I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.

Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.

When you talk about forming an offensive identity, it's about, first, let's figure out what our players do best.

Mike D'Antoni is a great offensive mind. He's a great coach.

Everybody always asked why I wanted to be an offensive lineman. I told them that I had 11 different people I can hit on every single play, while everyone else is chasing one person. I prided myself on being an extremely physical and dominant player.

It's one of those things: we've got guys that are very offensive and can take down anyone, and we've got guys that don't shoot at all but are very hard to take down. It's one of those things. You've got to decide what you're good at.

Every week we work really hard on that, in our defensive and offensive set pieces, and in our routines as well.

That's what most players know about me, that I can change the game without scoring or even having a good offensive night.

People talk about offensive chemistry all the time, but defensive chemistry is something you have to build, too, and there's a lot of that work to be done with just communications and the feel of who certain guys play.

Mike D'Antoni is one of the best offensive coaches in the whole game of basketball, by far.

It's an offensive league. All the rules cater to the offense.