Quotes About Strategy

If you have got pace and awareness of where you want the ball and where you want to go yourself, you are getting in positions behind defenders and that is what defenders want the least.

I don't think people saw me as a coach. But as a player I concentrated a lot on playing the game and I was always interested in the thinking side of football and speaking to managers about why they would pick a certain formation or play people in certain positions.

It's good to have the option to have someone else who can come in and play in different positions.

Sometimes you can win, but you are not building something positive for your future.

I go out in the middle with a positive frame of mind and the intention of playing out the entire overs and making full use of the available opportunities.

I think the best way to fight your detractors is to produce positive results and not think about them, but think about winning the hearts and minds of North Carolinians - or Americans - on good policy.

In the end, it's like that: The more I possess the ball, the more dominant we play, and the more often we win.

Age is just a number when you possess real quality and a game plan.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

The U.S. does not want to live under the shadow of a North Korea that possesses long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads to American cities. At the same time, the U.S. has no appetite for a war that would prove costly by every measure.

When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.

With Jorginho it depends what type of football you want to play. If you want to play possession where you have the ball all the time and you play a lot of passes, there are not many as good as him around. If you ask Jorginho to cover 50 metres of pitch in width and get all the balls back, it's going to be difficult.

There's no use to have 70 percent possession if the opponent is creating more chances than you are.

When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you're sitting in pole position to win.

Mourinho is a coach who likes more the ball practice, works the ball possession and makes short games.

It's modern football - having the ball, controlling the game, and being well positioned when you lose possession.

You win football games by first getting possession and then running 3- and 5-yard plays. Not by Hail Mary passes. Common sense, elbow grease, and keeping a positive attitude.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.

We have four parts of our game: working against the ball; in possession; losing the ball; winning the ball. If you are good in all four parts, you have a good chance of winning.

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.

At Tottenham, I'm asked to take a lot of risks to keep maximum possession of the ball and build from the back.

When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.