Playing Styles Quotes

Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting are anything but conventional, and you can't frown on Steve Waugh for playing his slog-sweep because it's so effective.

Every league has its own culture, its own identity, and its own type of football. It's very physical in England, but technical skill comes to the fore in Spain, where everybody wants to play beautiful football. The standards are very high in Germany, too; the teams are physically strong, very disciplined, and very well organised.

I play different styles, and am very good at changing how I play.

In 50over cricket there are different ways of playing. It's not all about smacking it over the top. It's important someone bats through the innings. That would be one of the options for me.

I think I can play both deep field and inside the box.

I don't think it's fair comparing Barcelona's style with that of Roma.

I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.

In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

People compare me to Verratti, and I do really like him, but we have very different playing styles.

All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing.

It's not like I played my first football match in England. For me, football is pretty much the same everywhere; the ball is round, but maybe tactically, things are different than at other clubs I've played for.

Perhaps my style of play is not something that is seen in England.

I began as a striker, then became a holding midfielder, and now I'm a centre-half. I've done everything except play in goal.

I would say I am more comfortable in the centre of midfield. But when you are at a big club like Liverpool, you maybe get played in positions with which you might not be so familiar. But you have got to learn the different roles, because it gives you a better opportunity to play.

It's different to play midfielder and striker or No. 10, but I enjoy all the positions I can play.

I've become accustomed to playing against four defenders throughout my career, but in Italy, I have to play against five.

I think off the wing and just behind the striker are probably the two go-to positions, so to speak. I'm comfortable with playing both.

I would say this: no matter what style you play, at some point, the team that beats you, people are going to say, 'I guess your style doesn't work.'

There's always more than one way to play the same notes because of the nature of guitar.

In Sweden, if a player has the ball, and you're running across the line of vision, you would never call for the ball. In the United States, if you're open, you're screaming.

In every country, you play a different style of football. Sometimes if it's really tactical, like it is in Spain, it seems like it slows down the tempo, but it's not really the case.

You come away better at playing against different players and styles.

Not all players want to play defense. You get in foul trouble, you're going to be on the bench.

I think each player has a different style of play, and every match is different.

The way you adapt and play against different teams and different styles is going to be important.