Offensive Approach Quotes

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.

I've always believed that. I'm not a guy who comes in with an offensive system, and we try to fit guys to it. I think it goes the other way. 'Here's who we've got. Let's put them in the right spots where they can be productive.'

Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

I don't have a go-to move, man; I just rush.

In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.

I like to get the ball in transition and go and everything, but I'm also not as dependent on having the ball all the time as I was maybe in college and when I first got to the NBA.

Golden State was basically a guard-oriented offense so I didn't use it that much.

I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

It was Thomas Tuchel's first season as coach and I played centrally always. The whole team had a great year, one that I enjoyed a lot. Our style has changed a bit, from trying to score within five seconds to a more calm and in some regard more educated style of play. We try to find the right moment - and then we explode.

It's a big part of my game, attacking.

If you have a defensive concept, you're going to play defense. If you don't have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you're going to play offense.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.