Quotes About Strategy

The best mark of a player is to beat him over a long distance.

It's hard for a player to plan for the future, especially in a game like football.

Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.

I am the finest defensive player in the game.

I'm not a player who's going to come out and hit you off the court. But I can chip away at people.

The way we stop Mesut Ozil is as a team. He's a good player but only as a team can we stop him.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Players alone don't win championships. It takes an entire organization. Someone has to acquire the players. Someone has to coach them. Someone has to generate revenue to pay them. But at the end of the day, the players are the ones who put their minds and bodies on the line to win.

We players are very well aware that being a favourite won't win you a game, that your jersey won't win you a game.

When you have players like Aaron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, and Joe Allen, you've got to play football.

Intuition is what makes the best players.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

I am a big NBA fan, where a lot of players play on physicality.

Someone like Shane Warne played the game on and off the field really well and got into guys' heads. Even though he couldn't bounce you and hurt you physically, he was verbally aggressive and would let you know he'd get you out. He made batsmen doubt themselves. I learned from players like him and made a point of incorporating it into my own game.

I feel like I'm one of the best players in the world tactically.

At the end of the day, it's my players play against their players, and the end of the day, that's what's important.

What captains want is players who move well in the field.

Normally, I play in midfield where I'm challenging the players and trying to take the ball.

When we have the ball, we're all offensive players. When we lose the ball, we're all defensive players.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'