Match Dynamics Quotes

I think, always, the form of the players is a decisive factor. And a game-plan and the referee. He can influence the game. And in a derby, a cool head is also very important.

According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.

When you're a sub, it's a game of more than 11 players starting the game.

English football is very different from Italian; it's more physical, and matches are always very open.

In match play, you don't ever want to play anybody that you know just because you don't want to send them home, but you don't want to go home yourself, either.

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

You gain know-how from playing matches because every moment of a football match has its own rhythm.

Sometimes in T20, you need to bowl only one over, and once the captain has given you that one over, irrespective of whether it is good or bad, that one over is out of the equation. That actually helps you, that one over. By the time the batsman figures out what you are trying to do, you get rid of one over.

The whole idea is to propose an immersive experience. When you watch tennis, you watch from the outside, you're far from the court, the camera is far away and the whole story is about two persons hitting a tennis ball and trying to win.

Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

Football is always a very emotional game, and VAR is changing that a bit.

There's so much more you can do with four bodies in the rules of a tag team match than two guys in a singles match. It's just a completely different thing.

Sometimes you have to set the angle within the match, but you gotta give a reason for one guy to be loved and one guy to be hated.

You're in there, you're having a match, and you're feeding off that crowd. That's the gasoline that fuels the match, and that's how you make your decisions. If you're not listening to that crowd when you're working, you're missing the biggest part of what working is all about.

A lot of my main-event matches will last around the half-hour mark, and if you can have a variety of emotions within that half hour, that's a great story from start to finish.

Every match should have a story in it and I see a lot of that lacking. I see a lot of guys doing a lot of good stuff, and I call it stuff, filling in the blanks in their match, but the stuff doesn't tie in.

Coming on as a sub, it's always different - you never know what the game is going to be like.

I tend to have great chemistry with whomever I step in the ring with because of the way I train and came up in this business.

In Europe, matches are different because you play a lot on a one-on-one basis. There's less tactical importance in the Champions League. The value of the individual player makes the difference.

Players that have had less minutes on the pitch compared to the usual starting XI will naturally concede more chances.

Barcelona players know how to summon up Messi into the game, letting him rest in periods of the match and then using his services at vital moments when he shows up in the middle of the pitch to create his magical plays.