Prithvi Shaw Quotes

If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.

But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit.

To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you're throwing it or running it in, it's not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That's the problem with turnovers.

If you're playing against an aggressive side, you need to play an aggressive game.

I'm not a guy that's going to shoot 10 3s a game - I like to get to the basket. But some of those shots I do gotta take. Some of those shots I gotta let fly.

I don't need to be going out reverse-sweeping for six and four straightaway. Singles can be just as important as boundaries, rotating the strike and not letting the bowlers settle.

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

It's about getting the right balance and knowing on the pitch when is the right time to take risks.

Some would argue the opposite: that with better pitches you should be able to express yourself, a bit like Kevin Pietersen does. Looking back, I wish I had been a bit more like that. But I always had a fear of failure, a fear of getting out, so I tried to eliminate risk from my game.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

Shot selection is very important because you don't want to lose wickets at the start and put pressure on the rest of the side.

I do wonder whether the bigger the game is, the more the risks that David Luiz decides to take.

All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.

You just have to be smart and know where you're at within the game and find the right time to be aggressive and take a shot. If it's not the right time, then move on to the next down.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.

We take more risks at United than the majority of teams but the manager wants us to play.

There's a lot of times I'll just play too passive and since I'm not going to play defense as well as most guys can, I can't get away with passive play.

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