Quotes About Strategy

I've never been one to go past 20 players on the wing. I'm always going to be the guy sneaking the ball through, to build and create something.

I will play power forward and small forward. Rebound, lead the break, play on the wing, post, play fast and play slow.

'West Wing' was a show about politics.

I've played on the wing in some games and found myself in the middle for five or 10 minutes when others drift wide. It's about creating chances, scoring goals and helping the team win.

For United, I'm more likely to be left wing of a four-man midfield with only two centre-mids, so it's a bit more difficult for me to maybe make those runs to get in and score those goals when I've got to think about my defensive duties as well.

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

One move nobody knows about, when I catch the ball on the wing and I'm driving, I'm looking at the defender's legs, and I'm yanking their legs back as I run by.

The push to defund public schools and reroute taxpayer money to charters and private institutions is actually a very clever strategy by the Right Wing, which has always had a great deal of disdain for a system that forces them to pay taxes toward some other kid's non-religious, science-based education.

The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

I used to play against a high school football team that always used to run the single wing. And eventually, other teams figured out that they ran the single wing. And so they prepared for it. The Democrats are stuck running the single wing.

You need two or three players who can do that - play behind the striker, on the right wing, the left wing... striker, maybe. If we have those, it's good for the team.

When I used to get the ball on the wing, I'd go fast and I'd go right. Veterans in this league, they watch film. They're definitely going to strategize. They know you like to go right. They know what your moves are.

Sometimes when you play on the wing it gets a bit isolated and you can't help as much. But if you play a bit more central I can get the ball a lot more and help a lot more.

Just taking the front wing and saying that will make racing better, it's quite a naive and ultimately expensive approach.

I think off the wing and just behind the striker are probably the two go-to positions, so to speak. I'm comfortable with playing both.

That's part of my game: just running the wing, defending.

I don't have the five positions anymore. It may be as simple as three positions now, where you're either a ball-handler, a wing or a big.

I like playing off the wing, facing up. That's my favorite thing to do.

For a long time at Blackburn and at Fulham last season, I was playing on the right wing. I've never seen myself as a right-winger. I could play there and come inside and try to create.

Against a team who are tight inside their area, you look to find combinations, the center with the wings or with shots from outside the box.

At Rennes, I played more down the left wing, but also down the right and sometimes in midfield. At Dortmund, it was the same: I alternated wings. I don't have problems with the position I'll take up.