Player Observation Quotes

I was able to play alongside, in my opinion, the best hitter with Miguel Cabrera and kind of watch the way he goes about it and the way he looks at situations, when to try to drive a ball versus when to shoot a ball.

I used to watch big guards and how they handled the ball and made plays. Guys like Joe Johnson.

You watch the game, you don't see Busquets. You watch Busquets, you see the whole game.

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

I don't want to be the guy that gets inspired by one player. I like to watch every player.

I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp [in Indianapolis]. They share the ball well; I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20 -- they do what they have to do to help the team.

I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball - but when I'm watching other people play, I'm really just watching as a student trying to figure different things out.

I saw Claude Makelele play in the French national team but before when he played at a club I didn't watch him a lot.

You can look at stats as much as you want - and we do - but you can have too much of it. You can spend too much time looking at computers rather than looking at the real thing which is out there on the pitch. I still think that being a good judge of players is the most important thing.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

There are some players I always watched, various players who I knew hit the ball well.

For me, watching Sergio Aguero week in week out helps my game massively, and I'm sure the other girls would say the same about various other players.

Poker is really about reading people. What happens when you bluff? What does it look like when the other guy bluffs? Does he look right, does he look left? Under what circumstances does he fold or call?

I watch a lot of tapes, a lot of games, all the replays. You watch the highlights on TV, those are all about goals getting scored or big saves. So you just look and see what guys do and how they're successful, and sometimes I see something and I go, Wow, that could work for me.