Quotes About Strategy

Yeah, I'm going to start talking to myself a little bit. Not talking to the opponent as much.

Mayweather has boxing genius. But it takes one to know one, and he knew right away Pacquiao also has rare boxing IQ - an equalizing gift for setting up and taking down an opponent.

A final is about winning. You can't wait for the opponent to be better than you, or let them start to play their football.

It's a disadvantage when there is not enough footage of an opponent.

I've always controlled my emotions. I think that probably came from playing a lot of tennis, keeping it inside and not letting the opponent see what's going on with you. I think it gives them an advantage when you do that.

It's not my goal to be the main scorer. It's whatever the opponent gives.

Anytime I've won a fight and asked for an opponent, I've usually gotten it, and that's because it's all well thought-out.

I feel like I've got a routine with how I study the opponent and go about each week.

The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.

Different martial arts have ways of showing you how to control an opponent and put him down, but jiu-jitsu is the king of how to finish somebody. And that's what I love about it.

The only thing that helps you play better is being ready to go against your next opponent.

When I analyse an opponent I do not look at the results. I try to find out how they score goals, concede, build up play, counter attack, counter-press, other things. So the result doesn't count for much.

I don't think much of automatisms, because they assume that a situation is always the same, otherwise the process no longer works. But that doesn't fit the reality with 22 players on the pitch. If the opponent is only half a metre to the left, the player suddenly doesn't know what he has to do.

This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you have to, this is the hurt business and you gotta to try to put your opponent out.

You normally can capitalize when your opponent makes mistakes, but at Talladega, you can't.

Sometimes I let my opponent hit me. Not because I like it. To get him tired.

I'd say I love the challenge of game-planning for the opponent every week.

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

I've said many times I don't want to pick opponents, and I don't want the UFC to pick opponents to give me an easier route, or anyone else.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

We know from experience that anything can happen in games against strong opponents; nuances can make the difference.

If I play at cards, I want to win and, coming into the games, I want to win, always, with the best result, with the respect to our opponents.

I'm putting constant pressure on my opponents and really dictating play.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.