Quotes About Tactics

As a spinner, you need to be very precise in Australia. Every run you give must be on your own terms.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.

Football is so difficult to predict.

You can't predict anything in T20s.

It's kind of hard with two moves. I feel like you can't always be so predictable. You can be as strong or fast as you want, but speed-chop and power move aren't always going to work.

When they have the lead, you don't want to fall into too predictable counts because they're playing with house money at that point. You want to try to be creative and keep them off-balance as much as you can.

I do not prefer a formation because it is only numbers.

More than anything I prefer the ball on the floor. I think I play my best football on the floor. There is a delicacy to this big giant.

In the Premier League, the most important thing is not to give the team at the top of the table reasons to keep winning game after game.

Claudio Ranieri knows the Premier League very well and he knows how to win games.

Sometimes in the Premier League, you are in a game where you can't play nice football because you just wouldn't win it.

International football is different to the Premier League.

In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.

I coach defending an awful lot but I don't think too many teams in the Premier League or in the world of football actually coach defending anymore, certainly not the full-backs.

If you can play effective counter-attacking football, as you see in the Premier League, it's very effective.

It is harder to win Premier League games playing 4-4-2 without having players of the quality the top teams have.

I'm not going to say the Dutch league is naive but they all play to win. In the Premier League, you have teams with a different idea.

Premier League players are a lot cleverer, but they don't like being roughed up. They're not used to that.

Pep and Jurgen tell me that the Premier League is crazy, a hard one.

When I don't reraise with a premium hand like K-K, I'll just smooth-call. Sometimes I just don't want to announce the strength of my hand to the entire table.

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.

When I prepare for a game the names are not really important to me.

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.