Quotes About Strategy

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

Mayweather has been hit the least out of every world champion in history and that is the art of the sport; to hit and not get hit.

I don't want to become world champion and lose it immediately. I want to become world champion, take over the division and take it from there.

It's a very slippery slope when you have a world champion boxer fighting an MMA guy for the sake of money, and he can't knock him out in the first round. He has to make sure he carries him a little bit.

I was an attacking full-back but was told by Hope Powell to just sit back when we played U.S.A. in the 2007 World Cup. It's hard to rein yourself in, but the team comes first.

The best thing to do is to find the type of play to make Italy win the World Cup, and maybe Baggio be the best player.

To win the World Cup, you win it one bit at a time.

Winning the Absa Cape Epic already was a wonderful surprise. The World Cup was, for sure, my main goal, but winning all of them was nothing I had planned on.

When I was made captain, one of my things was that whatever happens in those four years, you don't want to make major changes just before a World Cup. We'd done it before, and it never worked.

I resigned from captaincy because I wanted the new captain to get enough time for preparing a team before the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don't take the 23 best players, that is for sure.

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

I have played the World Cup qualifiers on the left wing, and that position suits me fine.

Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.

We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better.

I started the 1998 World Cup with Teddy Sheringham up front but always planned for Michael Owen to face Colombia in our final group game because they defended square and a quick striker would be able to exploit the space behind them.

Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options.

You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.

When you are in the World Cup, you must focus on seven matches and not losing any.

I don't think one player can ever win a World Cup.

Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.

The World Cup ball is very fast, and you need to think very quickly, when to punch and when to catch.