Daniel Negreanu Quotes

Teams are trying to get the advantage over the other team by what kind of reads we can get, how can we measure guys if they're tired - all these things.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

With Ronaldo, I think I've identified a few patterns; there are certain striking things. I will try to utilise this knowledge to my advantage.

I'm never afraid during a game, and I have no negative thoughts. I think about what I have to do. Which players can be substituted? And where I can manage to squeeze in a slight advantage? I remain very calm, which is why I never engage in any sideline antics.

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

If they think we've got an edge, we've got an edge.

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.

Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. Thats history right there.

People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren’t releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.

I think girls are surprised when you actually really listen and then you call it back at the end of the night.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

I don't put any thought into the footballs after I choose them. When you're out there playing in front of 70,000 people, like a home crowd, you don't think about it. You're just reacting to the game.

I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.

I still feel like my game is very dangerous. I always will have my serve.

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland. People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.