Quotes About Tactics

Ultra-aggressive players have a knack of making otherwise sound players commit huge stacks of chips with relatively weak hands, like A-Q.

I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or laying off of it and that's normally my go-to (pitch).

In Brazil, the coach respects the player's characteristics. In Europe, they are used to playing with two lines of four players, and they don't want to know what you can do. There, if you are a forward, the coach sends you on to the pitch just to run. You have to run, and that's it.

If you don't have bounce on the pitch, even a spinner cannot come handy.

It's about getting the right balance and knowing on the pitch when is the right time to take risks.

Within the changing room, everyone has always known I'm best when I pitch the ball up and get a little bit of movement.

As a catcher, I know the pitcher is trying to get ahead in the count.

Anytime a pitcher hasn't faced a hitter, I feel the pitcher has the advantage. The more times the hitter sees somebody, the more the advantage goes to the hitter.

Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.

Sometimes pitchers' duels are just as interesting as home-run affairs.

I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.

Every defense's game plan is to take me away.

I fight with a game plan, but sometimes you have an audible.

I never go into a fight thinking, 'I have to finish this guy' - that's not a part of my game plan. I go out there and fight the way I fight.

Roy Hodgson is a very good manager with a clear plan.

You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.

A lot of the things we do in Test cricket revolves around planning for the Ashes series down under.

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

People always have game plans to take care of Ronaldo, but very few people succeed in keeping him quiet for 90 minutes.

If you move in and out, throw shots and use angles and the guy's feet are planted, you look a lot better.

With foxes we must play the fox.