Quotes About Tactics

Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he's not big on rotation.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.

I don't want a new ball when I am bowling in the subcontinent. I want an old ball that can't get hit out of the ground. I want a ball that when I bowl doesn't have true bounce, so that the batsman can't hit it.

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

I don't enjoy hitting people; I enjoy outsmarting them.

Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

Hockey is a difficult and skill-based game.

You want to win hockey games, and it doesn't really matter how you do it.

My perfect formation would be 4-3-3 with one holding and then the two going forward. I would be one of the ones going forward.

Centre-backs usually get criticised for clearing the ball long, but it's easier doing this than risking a pass. If you lose the ball at the back, it's almost a goal. Most centre-backs don't risk this kind of game, depending on the holding midfielder in front.

To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

I'd rather be an athlete than a fighter, an athlete is going to go there and figure out the ways to win, see the holes in the game.

Holly Holm - before she fought Ronda, the fights were never that great. It was like, 'Yeah, she's screwed against Ronda!' Well, what they were doing is they were kind of playing opossum, just waiting for the big shot.

Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

Someone once described being a Housewife to me as being one big chess game, and in many ways, I guess it is for some people, but not for me.

I used to get the question in Houston which was like 'What would you do if you had Shaq?' My answer was 'I would give Shaq the ball 100 times a game.'

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

Many managers prefer to play with wingers that cut inside a lot and don't hug the touchline.

Fleming had good reason for acquiring the longbows. He intended to teach his men to use them 'to hurl incendiary charges into German petrol dumps'.30 Without fuel, Hitler's tanks and jeeps would be trapped inside their beachhead.