Possession Advantage Quotes

The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.

Any time you can come down and score on your first drive, that's what you're trying to accomplish.

If you're winning and can stay on the field offensively and move the ball, that's what we want.

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

If you win the turnover battle, you're gonna win more than you lose - and quite a bit more than you lose.

When I see a game on the television, and you see afterwards 'possession percentage 60-40,' that doesn't say anything for me because it could be that one team is playing the ball between the back four 120 times.

If you win the turnover battle and the explosive play battle in the same game, you win it 98 percent of the time. Now, can you win it with only winning one and losing one? Sure, but if you lose both of 'em, you only win 2 percent of the games where that occurrence happens.

Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

The important thing for me is we want to keep the ball, we want to have the ball because we are Arsenal football club.

I think time of possession is overrated, unless you are scoring.

When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.

When you have two-thirds of possession in any match you have got to turn that pressure into points.

Statistically, the chance of creating a goal is higher within 10 seconds of winning the ball.

Nine times out of 10, if you win the game, it starts with the turnover battle.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.