Gerardo Martino Quotes

There's a decision each match. I decide how we are going to play, and it depends on the opposition 30 per cent, their structure, and 70 per cent is for us.

That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

I don't really like all these tactical systems people talk about: 3-5-2, 4-3-3, and all that.

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

We have to let our defense dictate our offense.

Sometimes you have to just plug away, plug away in your game of football and maybe when your opponent gets a bit more tired you get that little extra metre and that's when you score the goals.

You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that's what makes the difference in the big matches.

A team like Golden State makes you change your lineup a little bit.

I'm not going to say the Dutch league is naive but they all play to win. In the Premier League, you have teams with a different idea.

English footballers are honest - they will run for 90-odd minutes - but that is not always what you need. Sometimes you need to rein back a bit and try and control the game with your passing.

It is possible to stop Messi. Teams do it when he plays for Argentina. But the Barcelona Messi is different.

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.

Knowing where a team will usually place a penalty can be the difference between winning or losing.

I think that's the genius part of what the Patriots do: They go above and beyond in identifying the issue and doing whatever they can to make sure it doesn't wreck the offensive plan.

You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it's going to be really hard to come back.

When you bring one of your top scorers, your top players off the bench, it really gives your team balance.

It's one of those things: we've got guys that are very offensive and can take down anyone, and we've got guys that don't shoot at all but are very hard to take down. It's one of those things. You've got to decide what you're good at.

I adapt more to the match for the second set.

I don't focus on how I'm gonna get the finish or how I would like to get the finish. I focus on just my game plan that I've gone over with myself, my coaches. If the finish comes it comes.

I think you have to play your own game and sometimes people don't realise that the play-maker runs the most kilometres on the pitch!

I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.

He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off

That's what I hope to put out onto the pitch - a team that knows how to win matches.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.