Spencer Paysinger Quotes

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

I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

I think there's a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That's what makes this great game so special.

If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.

In this league you might have a quarterback within your division that you're worried about running all over the place, the next week it's a running back, so to be able to have multiple answers for every situation is probably a benefit for everybody.

Every opposition needs to be played in a different way and the formation depends on the opposition's strengths.

I like to study everything: the way to be dangerous when you are attacking; what the players should do when you don't have the ball; where they should be. The tactics you tell the players to follow come from all this study.

The way we stop Mesut Ozil is as a team. He's a good player but only as a team can we stop him.

Pep and his staff work very hard, not just on the training pitch but also with the analysis of opponents, and now, of course, we understand more how he wants to play.

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It's a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work, defensive and offensively. We try to invest our time in set pieces.

Different players play you different ways. Some players might be slow-footed so they got to backup. Some players might push you up. You've got to have a go-to that's a mix for both of them.

Anybody can be beaten by one pass once. Are you getting beat by that same pass multiple times in the same game? That answer is no.

Don't give them 3-point shots if that's what they're trying to do and embarrass you in any way.

If a team has multiple looks, it's so hard to stand in front of your team and say, 'This is the scouting report. This is what you have to prepare for.'

I don't really worry about what the defense is trying to scheme to do against me. It really doesn't matter.

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

It's how I've been playing my whole life, guarding the best player on the other team.

If you concede early against a quality team, you have to play more openly - and can get picked off.

When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.

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.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

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

I've played against Aguero a couple of times. He starts behind you so he's always offside, but you don't know where he is. You look behind to the right and he'll go to your left. He's so tough to find. You've got to learn and work out how to stop them.