Geoffrey Boycott Quotes

Of course I like to watch myself bat. After every innings, match, series, I do watch my own videos whenever I get the time.

After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.

I analyse my games for club and country. I look at what I could have done better and learn.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.

I remember the first couple of years when I was coming up through the ranks, some of the old-timers would take me aside after the match and critique me.

When I don't play international cricket, I sharpen my skills at the NCA.

I trained with some great keepers at college, alongside full-grown men, and it helped me 100%.

If I didn't play well, Dad was the first one to tell me where I'd gone wrong and give great advice.

My defensive side was something I wanted to work on, especially coming into the Premier League.

During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.

Going through games, making silly mistakes, you'll need the manager to tell each individual what they are doing wrong.

When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.

Video analysis is big for me. Through video, you see good things and bad things and can show players how to improve.

Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.

I watch a lot of tapes, a lot of games, all the replays. You watch the highlights on TV, those are all about goals getting scored or big saves. So you just look and see what guys do and how they're successful, and sometimes I see something and I go, Wow, that could work for me.

Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.

You can always criticise people, the players are aware we can improve in a number of areas.

Criticism is part of football, but we have to work.

I remember how I, too, was part of the Azlan Shah tournament for the first time in 2005. After that, I went to the Junior World Cup. I remember how much I benefited from the exposure.

There are lots of aspects to work on my game, which the coaches do with me every day.

Paul Nixon taught me to break a run chase down into little targets. I suppose I stole his cues and took them into my own game.

Go out and do your drills that you do to try to get better. You lift your weights, try to take things from the classroom to grass, try to get better every day.