Quotes About Tactics

Lots of coaches like to draw up a play in a timeout and most, if not all of them, are drawn up against man-to-man type coverages and defenses.

That was part of coaching: to teach your receivers how to get free.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

That's what coaching is: It's watching film and putting guys in the best position.

Football is a game of errors. You want to make your rivals commit them and to avoid them yourself.

That's the intelligence of football: to see when to be compact, when to counter-attack, or, if you see that you're in the opposite half, you try and win the ball.

I was always a little bit compared to Jurgen because my core of working is working against the ball.

What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.

You don't want to show anything, any behavior giveaways that your competition might see, right?

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

I know how the game works. If I field one, then the other complains. It's always the same.

Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.

Some days, you don't score, but then you have to make sure you don't concede.

To score three goals and not concede any is always interesting for a coach.

The new-ball bowlers usually bowl seven to eight overs before we spinners come into the attack, and the pressure they build on the batsmen with the new ball - they concede not more than 20-25 runs - helps us plan our line of attack as to where to bowl to maintain that pressure.

In overcast conditions where you bat first, we have to try and not lose early wickets.

For me, it was very good to work with Cavani because he is a great attacker. In confrontations, you had to be very careful with him and try to cancel him in the best way.

Usually, if you're going to be a manager, you always want to talk about football and be a connoisseur of the game.

In Brazil, we have the culture to try to conquer the refs.

We have ways to confront the attention that Messi gets. Some teams mark him personally; others get physical and surround him with players.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

If I get a lucky win, it is difficult to sustain that over time, so we have to maintain a style.

Pull and sweep are two shots which can help me score runs outside India. These are two shots that can immediately put pressure back on bowlers.