Quotes About Strategy

This is the World Cup, and you need all the elements in place: a good coach, luck, and a cohesive team unit are fundamental requirements.

The World Cup is a really long tournament, so you have to prepare for whatever.

Once you reach the knockout stage of a World Cup, the team that holds its nerves wins.

In 2004, we were in a rebuilding phase after the disastrous 2003 World Cup campaign, and the batsmen, in particular, did not know where they would bat or what was their role. For example, in the one-dayers, we were playing Shahid Afridi on top of the order, but we didn't consider him for the Tests.

When you go to a World Cup, in midfield you need to have players who can score from distance, who can get in the box and obviously play-make.

In the 2015 World Cup, there was a drastic change in the move towards higher scores. Scores moved from 300 to 330 on average and that meant you had to change everyone's default mode.

Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.

I think every time I'm with the team, even in a World Cup, as a coach, you're constantly evaluating.

A lot of things have to come together to win a World Cup.

At this level, if you are aiming for the World Cup, because the tournament is so long there will be points where the team may lose a couple of games.

Even before the World Cup in 2010 I had said that there were no world champions who aim to stifle the opposition's play and somehow hope to win. These teams do not go far.

You can put the players on the pitch but they always move and systems change. I think, though, that Messi has to be a special case and that the other nine outfield players should support him. But one player on his own is not going to win you the World Cup.

I will not summon any new player for the Saudi Arabia match in the 2010 World Cup qualification.

World domination was never the plan.

China never had good intentions. Since the late 1980s, its stated aim has been world domination, technologically and militarily.

Thinking constantly about world domination can give you a little vertigo. The way I usually get through my day is by limiting my horizon to serving the next few customers or increasing revenues in the next few months.

The People's Republic of China has 2 million strong in its military, and it's trying to make them stronger through gene editing, and that's just one of the ways that China is trying to essentially dominate the planet and set the rules and the world order.

I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Sometimes you'll get a player who's marking you tightly, and he'll even apologise and say, 'My coach told me to stick close to you and mark you. I know you're a great player.' But I tell him it's fine and to do what he has to do.

As a bowler you need to keep an eye on what the batsman is trying to do till the last moment.

You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.

There is always a plan, and that is very simple - to lead the game till the end - and my role is to play the anchor while the team plays around me.

It always helps a team when the opener is able to bat till the 20th over. I am learning to do so.