Quotes About Tactics

Many players are of the same standard; it all depends on how your strokes land on the other side of court.

Darts is more psychological than anything... staying mentally strong.

The best advice when playing from the small blind is to mix up your play. The general rules are to fold garbage hands, limp with marginal hands, and raise with hands that are strong enough to play big pots with. Don't allow your opponents, however, to pick up patterns in your play.

Not only the attackers, but the defenders - it's on the attackers to prepare themselves to break through the strong defense.

My left foot is not the strongest but I can be clever by going round somebody or using the right side of my foot.

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

I get a lot of front ball in a position that, normally, the opponent's defense is making the move outwards, and our attackers are getting in.

It's always positive to have more of the ball than the opponent, but you have to do something with it.

I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.

It helps to be able to see things before your opponent. In futsal, you have less time to think so make decisions faster than most. You know what is coming. It may not always work, but an understanding is generated through futsal.

If the opponent makes a foul close to their own goal, it's a chance for us. I take it like this.

The point in tennis is to take the ball as early as possible and take time away from your opponent.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

The game is a war, and in a war you fight. My opponent is just the director of the opponent's army.

Every fighter fights in the ring the way his opponent lets him fight.

I think of myself as playing against the board, and not against my opponent.

That has to help if you know the mentality of your opponent, and how he wants to play.

I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

I don't focus much on video. I watch here and there, perhaps two or three of my opponent's fights. That gives me a good idea of his style.

Even when my opponent hits a very good shot, I don't just want to get it back. I want to get it back so they have difficulty. And then I can control the point.