Quotes About Strategy

We never played for 1-0 and then defend. We always went for the second goal and the third.

They say that the best form of defence is attack, but maybe I have to take a look at how I defend.

I came from Ajax where you play 4-3-3 and as a winger they didn't want you to defend.

In the NBA, if you can't defend your position, they're going to go at you over and over again.

You can defend a single-leg takedown a little bit easier than you could a double-leg takedown.

The players who defend against him make fouls because it's always hard to defend Neymar and take the ball without fouling him.

It's good to defend a player that's as fast as me because I have to learn.

The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.

I just think I have to be a defender. If I can attack, it's a bonus.

Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

I'm a good defender, so I like to play defense.

I always try to outsmart my defender.

The biggest pass for a defender is a pass forward.

In football, when I break the line of scrimmage, I see a player in front of me, a defender, and already in my head I'm thinking, 'I'm going to make him miss.' So I'm already looking at the next defender like, 'OK, how can I set this guy up to get him out of position, too?'

I just try to keep my game simple and just get chances. I try to stay on the defender's shoulder, run behind because they don't like it and when I get an opportunity, I shoot. If it goes in one day, it goes in. If it doesn't another day, it doesn't.

When you come out of pick-and-roll, it's really tough to step back and shoot because the defender is coming.

I've always played left-back and I'm an established defender so that is the focus for me in games.

The strikers are the first defenders. And the first defender is the first striker to build from the back.

Defenders must be careful yet decisive when taking action.

I've pretty much adjusted to how teams play. Like when I draw two defenders, I want to make the best play possible.

Positional play is good for training, but in games, to win matches, you need someone who can go past defenders and take chances.

As a winger, you want to get at defenders and make it hard for them. Instead of them going forwards, they have to defend against you.

Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.