Hank Stram Quotes

With Ronaldo, I think I've identified a few patterns; there are certain striking things. I will try to utilise this knowledge to my advantage.

It's one of those things: we've got guys that are very offensive and can take down anyone, and we've got guys that don't shoot at all but are very hard to take down. It's one of those things. You've got to decide what you're good at.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he's doing. He's focusing in on what you're doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

We have what we call a dictator offense. We dictate to defenses by making them do what we want them to do. And we do it by creating formations.

When you see the floor and you understand the game and you're trying to break it down with what you have in front of you, you can do it offensively and defensively. And you try to take advantage of it both ways. You see where the offense's head is and you can kind of read what you want to do.

I think we can keep people off-balance and ultimately we have to go score points, score one more point than the other team.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

I try to exploit things against everybody; that's part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you're beating their team.

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

I don't go into a game thinking I'm going to run more than I'm going to pass. So it just depends on what the defense is going to bring in the situation of the game and what happens that play.

I don't want to put my game plan out there for everybody to see it and read it and teams can scheme. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.

When you can get o-linemen guessing about what you're going to do, that means you're already winning before you start.

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.

If you have a top winger, you are going to win a lot of games.

We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.

You can't just limit yourself to underneath routes and let the defense kind of sit on those things.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

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 most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.

In New England, I learned so much about football. I always thought I was a smart player, even though I never thought about anything but the six inches in front of my face. In New England, I was forced to learn so many schematic concepts.

I love when people try to be physical with me. They think that's the way to try to guard me and to get physical with me. I use that to my advantage.

We all understand football is entertainment. And people like high-scoring games. But you still have to play defense to win championships.