Ninja Quotes

I'm someone who really thinks the game through, who has an IQ about the game, who studies the game, who knows a lot more than just running and jumping.

My best asset to my game is my IQ. I play the game thinking the game first.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

My IQ for the game is very high. I think that will help me out a lot.

Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.

Playing me in different positions helped me to get in the head of the others players: to know what they're thinking, where and how they are going to move.

I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

Deco is a very skillful player. He thinks very fast on the pitch.

One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

Football's always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.

A finisher doesn't always mean you have to take the game deep and then bash to finish. It is all about understanding situations and then adjusting your game with the aim that you have to get the job done.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.

You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that's what makes the difference in the big matches.

The most important thing is they have to know why we do things and when. A lot of players are playing intuitively, and I want them to think and know why they do something.

I understand now the different games and the different approaches that you need to take at different times, with different styles of play.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.

I have to make sure I'm making the right play at the right time.

If players cannot see what's going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.