Tony Dungy Quotes

I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.

In Italy it is far more difficult than in Spain, where teams are not that attentive in defence.

Scoring lots of goals in Italy is much more difficult: they are experts in defending.

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

The other thing was that when I was at the University of Miami, we ran a pro-style offense and defense. I started each year by going to a pro training camp, I visited with various pro coaches, and I did this for five years.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

Fotball strategy does not originate in a scrimmage. It is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending. But more important is that I like to have the ball. That's why I believe in individual coaching sessions to prepare players properly.

I developed my game a lot and learned how to score off the dribble. I learned how to play team defense and one-on-one defense.

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.

Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.

It's important to strengthen my body while also improving my shot. Shooting and defense are how I'll make my living, so those are the areas I really have to work on.

When I came back to England after my stint with Derby in 1995, I really wanted more time to study coaching.

It's different the way the game is played now and the way we played the game.

If you have a defensive concept, you're going to play defense. If you don't have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you're going to play offense.

Traditional cricket has gone out of the window. It's gone. T20 cricket has changed the game.

My main improvement on defense has just been my coaches. They've been teaching me defensive schemes, how to guard guys, and how to use my length.

No single player can stop Antoine Griezmann on his own.

There is no Benitez 'method.' We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.

We know it's impossible sometimes to have good defending against Cristiano Ronaldo but we want to keep the ball, with good possession, as then he can do nothing in attack.