I'm not the strongest, I'm not the fastest, I can't jump the highest, so for me, it's doing it in other ways: changing paces, using your body to get open, knowing your defender. A lot goes into it. You have to study the game.
You need to defend as a team to defend well.
When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.
You have to play defense, that's how you win.
That's how you get better on defense; not just 'oh, man, my guy beat me,' but you have to think about, 'okay, my man beat me, so I either have to pick up the next man, or I'm going to give somebody a foul.
My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.
Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him
I would always treat my attacking game as the more natural part. With defence, you have to get yourself in positions to understand the game and understand situations and that might not be as natural a thing.
With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy.
When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.
The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.
There's a lot of things I can get better at as an individual, knowing where defenders are, having a better awareness. Those are things I can work on.
Zones are easier just to throw out there and you don't have to really teach it.
You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.
I'll knock down the open jumper when it's there, but I want to get after it on the defensive end.
On the defensive end, I have to do my job.
I can play off the ball some, and that's fine with me as long as I can be out on the floor. But I am definitely more natural as a point guard than I am as a two guard.
All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air.
There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'
When I started playing hockey, I realised the entire game relies on your back- you have to bend to play it.
Well, I mean, I like to be pretty athletic off the mound in terms of taking care of my job, which is covering first base, fielding bunts in certain situations, fielding slow rollers to the first base and having to communicate and direct traffic.
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
I realize I have to continue to work on defense. I think a lot of people have to work on defense.
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
Peter Schmeichel could make the goal look much smaller when you glanced up to hit a shot.
