Quotes About Strategy

I rely on swing to get wickets, and I continue to do it that way. I have never tried to copy others.

I'm not someone who looks to swing the ball away majorly.

I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.

When you get strike one, strike two, you're putting pressure on them to swing at your pitches.

I've done it before where I get guys banging their bat on the ground after their second or third at-bat because you just have so many different combinations to try to get him to swing and miss.

You can't build teams with drastic changes or a drastic swing of players.

I've always told everybody that hits behind me, swing at whatever you want because if you hit the ball in the gap, I'll score.

Almost every bowler bowls a slower ball, but not many can be deceptive. A slower ball can only be deceptive if it is different, if it is floating, swinging.

The big thing is, it's about learning which off-speed pitches to swing at. A lot of people say, 'Oh, this guy can't hit a curveball; this guy can't hit an off-speed pitch.' But it's about swinging at the right one. Swing at the hangers. Swing at the ones you can handle.

Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.

I'm comfortable swinging the ball at the top of the key.

I kind of realized that when I take more pitches I put better swings on them.

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

The bigs are there on the help-side if the guy goes by me, and I'm able to switch to other offensive players.

What makes me unique is my ability to adapt to different situations and switch onto smaller guards and stay out there. Another component to being out there on the floor - and this is something that I learned as my college career went on - was staying on the floor, literally, comes down to not picking up fouls.

I'd never switch to man-to-man unless we were able to play good man-to-man. Ever.

I like to have plans in place so I know what I am doing and when. Take nutrition. When I am on the bike I will start off eating solid food like rice cakes made with pistachios or energy bars. Then as the race goes on, halfway though I will switch to gels as they get into your system more quickly and they are easier to palate when you're tired.

Finishing a guy like Benson Henderson, who hasn't been finished since for six years, the guy doesn't get finished and I finished it with a switch-step switch to Southpaw, knocked him out with my left hand.

I can hedge out on the screen-and-roll, I can fall back, and I can switch. I'm pretty good with everything on the pick-and-roll.

I see other teams playing aggressive, attacking football, they are games I switch on and watch. They are the football teams I want to produce.

When you play in the Champions League, you are switched on - very, very smart and focused on every situation.

Learning how to win comes with switching the onus of pressure away from yourselves and then seizing your moment.

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.