David Fizdale Quotes

When I play, I like to use my pace and to link up with my team-mates.

I think that's the type of game I'm better at - faster paced, just moving the ball more around.

I don't like to put much pressure on myself but yeah that is my sort of football: get the ball, run with it, use my pace, create opportunities, cross.

I like to get the ball on the ground, make good plays and move the ball around the pitch quickly at a good tempo.

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.

To be successful you have to find a good balance between offence and defence, to work without the ball, but our main tactic is to work with the ball, to be in possession.

For me it's more difficult to play against the quicker wingers, but for the team it's perhaps more difficult to face players that are good passers, because one through ball can take the whole team out of the game.

I love good flowing football where the whole team is engaged.

It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.

You don't get the ball and dribble; you get it and move it.

Real Madrid, they are the best counter-attacking team in the world.

Offense is about rhythm and timing, and you're not going to always have that every game.

I like to get the ball down and play, but I can always get stuck in and hold my own.

The pace of the game has changed even while I've been a player. It always seems to be getting quicker. You need to be fast, quick to get around the park, need to be able to press and defend and get in peoples' faces, and you need quality on the ball.

Germany are a tough opponent. They are quick and break on the counter at speed, and they are bursting with confidence.

Sometimes you just square the ball, and somebody else shoots, but some assists are so nice, and the passing is very important. We creators have a thing with the attackers.

Obviously, I don't have any real speed to work with so I have to use other things. The modern game is very speed based so as soon as managers see that you haven't got that pace it can be tough.

Football, if we bring it down very simply, it's when you have the ball and when you don't.

Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Accelerating, dribbling, and creating opportunities are the DNA of my game.