Quotes About Tactics

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

Football is a game you play with your mind.

When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

The more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It's a mental war more than anything.

I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.

I always play football in my team, and I know that if you play too much long ball, then it's difficult.

The big thing is to win, but to look at the long-term, you need one way to play, and the philosophy is not only to put 11 players on the pitch and play football.

There are lots of different ways to play football; I choose one in my career. I believe in that one.

I have always said that the BVB style is exactly how I want to play football.

Cruyff's idea was, quite literally, to play football - nothing more, nothing less. His idea of how football should be played was based not on controlling the opponent, but on the ball and the game.

A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.

Every player has his way of playing.

Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.

I'm not a player who's going to come out and hit you off the court. But I can chip away at people.

The way we stop Mesut Ozil is as a team. He's a good player but only as a team can we stop him.

Because I'm fairly big, I like to use my body. So I'll control the ball, even when there's a player on me, and then I'll pass.

If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.

Normally, I play in midfield where I'm challenging the players and trying to take the ball.

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

Less is always more in a playoff game.

Playoff basketball isn't about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It's just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

Teams that can run the football, stop the run and take care of the football will win in the playoffs.