Quotes About Tactics

This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you have to, this is the hurt business and you gotta to try to put your opponent out.

Sometimes I let my opponent hit me. Not because I like it. To get him tired.

I'd say I love the challenge of game-planning for the opponent every week.

We know from experience that anything can happen in games against strong opponents; nuances can make the difference.

I'm putting constant pressure on my opponents and really dictating play.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

If I can put the right guy with the right mouthpiece in front of the right opponents, we can build a champion, but he doesn't really have to beat the best guys; we just have to give him the right matchups.

The differences between the top teams in Euro 2000 are so minimal that I think you have to be very clever in defence and stop your opponents getting opportunities.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

You can't expect our opponents to play cautiously.

Opponents know how to get the fouls and it's gone against me a couple of times.

We always have respect for our opponents, but we will try to enforce our own game.

I find it quite amusing that it's feasible that your opponents can have somebody watching you.

I'm a southpaw and a counter-puncher. I tend to box on the back foot and catch my opponents when they come forward.

When you play Leeds, you need players who are quick and who are capable of beating opponents as they like to set up one-v-one.

I have that one-punch KO power in both hands but I won't only be going for the head. Most of Floyd's opponents have done that but his defence is so good.

I learned a lot with Andre Villas-Boas at Porto. He is very intelligent tactically. He was almost so well informed about the opponents that we pretty much knew everything about them when we went out on to the pitch. It was scary how much we knew.

I am someone who also likes to push forward and go two on one against the opposing full-back.

I find the game mentally challenging and really enjoy the chess match that occurs every week between the offense and the opposing defense.

The last thing you want as a striker is the opposing team putting all 10 players behind the ball.

We center backs had to cover a lot of ground, and we had to be very physical with the opposing strikers.

Having captained India for long, it is habitual to discuss with my mates and assess the bowling changes, the bowling changes, the field setting that the opposing captain would do.

To be a great NFL player, you have to know what your opponent is doing, not just opposite your position but what they're doing all over the field. All the contingencies.