Quotes About Tactics

I prefer to win a game and lose other 2 rather than draw 3 games. Both cases you get 3 points.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

You do not want to be playing good teams and always let them have 70 per cent of the ball, and expect it to work every time. That does not happen often.

Obviously everyone wants to play a certain way but when you get into certain moments you need someone to hold it up or if you are losing a game, go long.

If I watch big games like the Champions League on TV then I'm definitely watching what different centre-backs are doing in certain situations.

I have to stay in front to try and create chances and be in the right place in the box.

The way I play will change things, there will be a lot more attacking snooker in the future.

I have to know the characteristics of the players. I have to adapt myself to the characteristics of the championship and the players. Now I study my players.

Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff.

Man, jiu-jitsu is such a chess match.

You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

Chess is life.

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

I play chess with the computer when I feel dull in my mind and after two games - 'out or win', I feel sharp again.

It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

I like Sevilla's attacking style. That is why I chose them.

When you are bowling with a new ball, there are only two fielders outside the circle. With the old ball, batsmen don't care how many guys are outside the circle.

We have to keep in mind things like having five fielders inside the circle always. We have to decide who has to be inside, who has to bowl to which batsman and what the situation is.

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.