John Stockton Quotes

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

At the end of the day, it's me versus you, and I'm trying to get you out. If I can throw you six curveballs in a row and get you out, I'm going to do it all day.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

What you end up doing is you try to match your guy's strength against a place they can be successful. They're doing the same thing against us. Sometimes they have the edge, sometimes you have the edge.

I think we can keep people off-balance and ultimately we have to go score points, score one more point than the other team.

You always have to put pressure on an opponent.

I just challenge the big guys and attack them, and use my quickness to my advantage.

I always try to outsmart my defender.

It's good to have different ways to break opponents down, and speed is a big part of my game.

We always have respect for our opponents, but we will try to enforce our own game.

Playoff basketball isn't about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It's just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

To get past a rival you have to be smart.

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

You want to keep the defense guessing.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

Once you have an opponent in your mind that you're preparing for, you're working on specifics, and you get guys in to mimic what they do.

You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.

You got to know what the defense looks for and use that against them.

I always say when the opponent was better.

Football is a game of errors. You want to make your rivals commit them and to avoid them yourself.

There's really no secret to this; that everybody's - they are going to have a game plan against me and I'm going to have a game plan against them. It just comes down to execution.