Marta da Silva Quotes

You look at another team's style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they're doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

I like to watch the men play. I like the way that they're playing, and I can always learn something from them. They're playing differently than the women, so I like to learn from them as well.

You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we're going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.

I sit on the bench, and I watch even my teammates swing, so you can learn from them when they make a bad swing or good swing. I like to watch from the rookie to the veteran player, and that way you can see the difference and learn something from them.

When you go through the youth system you're always going in to do analysis work, looking at every way of improving and your coaches are always on top of you.

I'm by no means an expert at coaching high school football. I'm doing the best I can in Year 1. But I've already learned a lot of lessons and I imagine I'll keep learning them.

No one in the Indian team gave me tips, but I should be mature enough to grasp little things by watching them train and play.

As more we play cricket, the more players will learn from it.

In the early days, when I first got into the WI team, when the Ws were playing, I would sit and watch. When you could learn from watching players like that, it was a great joy to watch them play.

You're able to learn different things from different coaches and different players.

I watched videos of great players. I was inspired by what they did, then I used to try things out in training.

I have to know the characteristics of the players. I have to adapt myself to the characteristics of the championship and the players. Now I study my players.

Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.

For me, whether we win or lose, every match is giving me a lot of information about how to improve.

When you train with good players or watch matches on TV, you want to do what they do.

I watch everybody and tried to take bits and pieces from everybody.

What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books.

I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around people that do it well and you get your head out of your ass, you can really learn something.

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Just as I am working hard to adjust to a new level, someone comes along and asks me to move up again. I'm not complaining about it; I just get on with trying to make sure I don't let anyone down. Training with England is just a different gravy again. Movement-wise, finishing-wise, you can learn such a lot from watching the very best in action.

I paid attention to how Floyd Mayweather adapts.

A good coach is good in the management of his men; he gives all of his players the desire to fight until the last.

Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.

Rugby is a game that's constant. If you are not growing with it, you get left behind.