Game Insight Quotes

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

I enjoy watching football on TV. Many times I can visualize the whole field, even on the TV screen, because I still know enough about what the teams are doing.

It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources.

Guardiola knows that the little details that can make us better. He analyses the game instantly - that's his biggest strength, his best characteristic.

Similar to the familiarity I've always had with the ball, there's this familiarity that the game has given me over years of understanding it and living it.

I'm a big Alex Cora fan, as far as aggressiveness, the things that he sees like pitch tipping. His eyes are really good.

I really enjoy watching on the side because I can really see the game from a different perspective.

I knew becoming an analyst would allow me to see the game from a new perspective.

I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from a camera angle, or the booth.

First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

It's weird watching games and being apart from it but seeing teams that could use you in certain situations. You see where you could help different clubs in different ways.

I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball - but when I'm watching other people play, I'm really just watching as a student trying to figure different things out.

I could see myself doing more color in the future - I love being able to analyze game by game and share the stories with the players.

I don't mind talking about the game. I don't mind talking about what we go through as players, because I want people to get a deeper look inside instead of looking at stats all the time or looking at numbers or just watching the game. I want them to get a pulse on us as players, and a lot of players might not want that, but that's what I want.

Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.

You can learn being off the pitch. If you are sitting in the stands, you can see how the whole team plays.

I try to read the game as well as I can.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

You can look at stats as much as you want - and we do - but you can have too much of it. You can spend too much time looking at computers rather than looking at the real thing which is out there on the pitch. I still think that being a good judge of players is the most important thing.

You can Google how many goals a player has scored in the last few seasons, or against this particular side, but our job is to point the viewers to something that is happening in the game that they may not have seen or thought of.

Picking up a tell - a hint that a player unknowingly gives that reveals the strength of his hand - often means the difference between winning and losing a big pot.

I like to watch the great players, the ones who are technically good and understand the game. I try to see how they move.

As a captain, you sit on the sidelines and it's evident the best place to bat is up front.

Not everything is seen that happens on the pitch - the teammate in a good position, where it might get dangerous, how a situation develops.