Mats Wilander Quotes

I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent.

My concentration with players is the next match, focus only to work for the next match and how we can win.

We all know how to play tennis. We all know how to hit the ball. It's more just about those details - managing all those early rounds and just managing yourself to make sure you're ready for whatever is coming up next.

With experience also comes the understanding that you have to beat the rally before you can beat the competition.

In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.

The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.

Every fighter has to go in there with a game plan.

It doesn't matter the way you're playing, especially the beginning of a grand slam. It doesn't change anything.

If you're well-prepared, you know what you're doing, and you have an idea what the opponents can do - what their strengths and weaknesses are - once you get into the game, those adjustments will be - I won't say easy, but relatively easier and more manageable.

There are two real keys to winning. You've got to have good players: no coach won with bad players. You win with good players. That is number one. Number two is, when we are playing, let's say we are playing Michigan, and they had a really good press: we've got to solve that press.

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be able to do much.

Every opposition needs to be played in a different way and the formation depends on the opposition's strengths.

Mr Conte is important as a coach that is able to really implement a game plan.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

If we want to be champions, we have to do our homework on all opponents, regardless of their position in La Liga or the stadium.

You always want to give yourself an edge, want to help your team win. That's pretty much going to preparation.

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

I just feel like when I come up against another team, I'll always look at their best players and I'll think, if I can stop these doing what they are doing, then I'll get noticed and I'll help the team as well.