J. B. Bickerstaff Quotes

We're going to try to tailor our offense to our player's ability.

It's important to know as much as I can about the players.

During the regular season, you don't have the sort of time you do in the playoffs to prepare for people, so you've got to go to your strengths.

There is nobody called Test bowler, one day bowler or T20 bowler. It just how you adapt and make a difference to your own game.

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

With TV, it's the same way as preparing for the game of football. To get better at football, you have to watch the film and watch those who came before you and played the game, and yes, the first year you come in as a rookie and you're not gonna be as good as when you come in as a vet, and I applied that in the same way to 'Ton of Cash.'

If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.

The life of a business is not like a football team! We are not taking part in an Italy-France game or against Germany.

Change does not mean you will win with a new coach and achieve victories, but rather it causes instability in the team as the new coach needs some time for the players to adapt his new plans, which are always different than the previous coach.

I'm watching a lot of film to see what I can do differently, to see how I can help when I get in the game.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

Normally, the coach does not like to make changes that are not necessary - because a team has to find itself.

When you go into the really big games you look at your team and think 'where are we weak, where are we vulnerable.'

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 think our sport evolves as the talent evolves and the mindset evolves.

You've got to turn over every stone; you've got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you're doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage - from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done.

Allegri is very good at managing the locker room in the most difficult moments of a season, to make the team understand how to manage the time of a match.

My coaches do all the breakdowns of my opponents, and I leave that up to them.

As a player, I had no idea whatsoever about getting a team ready for a game, what it entails.

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.

Anytime you get to play a team twice, you have a feel for what they do and how they play.

I consider that part of my job as a pro: to know who you're up against and how the attacking players play, what kind of characteristics they have, their qualities, how they move, their preferred foot.

It's one thing to have a scouting report and not be able to execute it, and it's completely different if you're able to kind of work your way through that report, attack guys certain ways, use different sequences, and be effective with them.

Barcelona focus a lot on what Barcelona does and not on what others are going to do. It creates a different way of working. Of course we studied our opponents to see their weak points and their strong points, but 70 per cent of the time, it was about us.

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