Quotes About Tactics

People like Mo Ali, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Joe Root, they are looking to take attack to the opposition and that's when they play their best.

You can be dominant without the ball by trying to move the opposition where you want them to go.

When you are in the government, you have to demonise your opposition.

I've never seen a Barca without control of the game. I've never seen a Barca that doesn't have the ball and lets the opposition attack all the time.

When the opposition sits back and defends well and together, it's difficult.

Whenever people speak, you give the opposition the opportunity to use those words as they see fit.

In football, you don't hold on to the ball just to hold on to the ball. When you have it you need to be dangerous, create opportunities and score goals. And when you don't, you make sure the opposition doesn't.

As a player you always feel the pressure and as a team you are always trying to make sure the opposition are under it.

Cricket has always been about using street smarts and putting the opposition under pressure, on the field and off it.

When the opposition has the ball you don't want to chase. You want to stay fresh for when the opportunity comes to score.

If you are the top bowler in your team, you need to get the top batsman in the opposition. So it is expected and people just highlight that particular bit and make it sound like it is gamesmanship.

I'm saying that ammunition comes with multiple options, and it's not always military. Ammunition also comes with sanctions. Ammunition also comes with trade.

In 50over cricket there are different ways of playing. It's not all about smacking it over the top. It's important someone bats through the innings. That would be one of the options for me.

Most of the clubs who have had success against Barcelona have relied on a highly organised and disciplined defence.

When we are organised on the pitch, it is easier to play in defense.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

Every session we do we try and talk about the way we want to play, I try to organize the sessions in a way that the players can understand the way I want them to play.

Originally, I think basketball is closer to hockey than baseball.

I thought I fought a really good Orlando Salido. I never let him get into his fight. I knew what I needed to do against him and I think that was the difference. I was able to control the fight.

English football is really different to football in other countries.

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It's a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work, defensive and offensively. We try to invest our time in set pieces.