Game Pace Quotes

I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.

I still play my fast-paced style but when the game slows down it allows you to see the little things - the right passes, where to lay the ball up.

I think that football has changed, it has become more complex. For example, it's faster, you have less free space, and you have to play from such small spaces.

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

People talk about the speed of the English game, but in Italy, referees blow their whistles very often, so you cannot build up speed. In England, referees wave play on, and so it becomes faster.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.

In our league, 20 points in the first half isn't anything.

Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

Limit Hold'em is the game for you if you bore easily and crave fast action. Conversely, in No Limit, the game will often slow to a halt when someone is faced with a big decision. That's uncommon in Limit games because all-in bets are rare.

You try to take advantage of taking control of the game when you know you may have guys on base and counts aren't in your favor or whatever. You just try to figure out ways to slow the game down to get back to the pace that you want it to be at, to try to get the momentum back on your side.

I need to work on timing and the pace of the game. I need to know when to slow it down and speed it up.

Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.

D'Antoni can be successful playing slow or fast because he is a bright guy who has very creative ideas.

I think everyone is just expanding, with the centers shooting 3s. I think that just opens the floor up a lot more. A lot more shots are going up, a lot more freedom of movement. It makes it more of an exciting game.

The massive thing that has changed for me was the game management aspect. I still get it wrong sometimes, we all do, when to attack and when to kick, how to control the game, speeding it up and slowing it down. Whereas I used to just go flat out, as hard as I can, get the ball out and get to the ruck as quick as possible.

When you can get the game to slow down for you, you can play a lot faster.

What I liked was to set the tone - set the pace for the team. I know when we're starting the game, I can get on and steal a base, then a guy bring me in. Then we're in the lead and in a good position to win. That was the most exciting thing - to help the team.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

I'm a big believer that if you can have success in the playoffs, when it means the most and when the game is at its highest pace, it always carries into the next year and it gives a player confidence.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

No. 7 is not an easy position. The way you play is dictated by the pace of the game and you have to try to get quick runs. Even top players like Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes find it hard.

Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.

It was incredible to play in the Premier League, somewhere I always wanted to go because of the speed and the pace of the game.