Sandeep Singh Quotes

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.

You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

War strategy is always unique. It is like a chess game. The pieces are always the same but each game is unique

This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.

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

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

I work my angles and things like that.

You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn't expect.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

I have never won big fights just doing one thing, being one-dimensional.

One needs to have variations. You won't survive if you don't have one - especially playing in India, as they are good players of spin.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

I like to take the floor apart mentally. I like to visualize an opponent going for you.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

The main thing is strategy. It's not just come in and duke it out and fight.

In an Ashes series you have to adapt quickly to the conditions and your rivals. If you don't, you get found out.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.

I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.