Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.
I learned a lot of things that made me be a better player and have more of a variety on the pitch.
One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.
Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.
I like to get the ball on the ground, make good plays and move the ball around the pitch quickly at a good tempo.
In my opinion, he has very special abilities. He has talent and he always manages to show it on the pitch. He always has the instinct to make the right decision. He uses his speed well against the opponents he plays. He has a strong finish. All in all, no one else has as much quality as Lionel Messi.
Put me there on the pitch if you want to see how much it means to me or how hungry I am to win more medals.
The FA Cup final is such a fantastic final to play in. I played in the 1999 one at Wembley, and after having watched so many finals as a kid, to be able to make that long walk up from the dressing room to the pitch was fantastic.
It’s always good to have great players around you. You have to battle for your place, and it makes you more hungry on the training pitch, and you know, when you get your chance, you have to take it.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it’s like you’ve thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
You can be rivals out on the pitch, but respect is the most important thing.
Going into ‘Details’ magazine to pitch concepts for a potential photo shoot was one of the most nerve-wracking things I had ever done. I didn’t really know what one did in a pitch, how they were structured, etc., and that freaked me out big time.
Players earn their wages, their livelihoods, and their right to compete to win things out on the pitch and not off it.
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
My pitch is very simple. My name is Theresa May, and I think I’m the best person to be Prime Minister of this country.
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.
Not everything is seen that happens on the pitch – the teammate in a good position, where it might get dangerous, how a situation develops.
When I’m on the pitch, I just want to give as good a performance as possible.
I just want to keep on getting better and improving. Those extra hours on the training pitch, whether it be with the boys or individually, I am just looking to improve.
I was appointed to Cabinet three times; on no occasion did I pitch for what position I wanted.
Charter’s merger sales pitch is pretty straightforward: it argues that it has always been too small to bully Internet companies, TV makers, and its own customers, so it has’un-cable’ practices they hope to extend.
It used to be a given that the talent and the talent agencies would line up around the broadcast pitch season first and then take whatever was still available out to cable. I hate to say it, but it’s just not going down that way anymore. There are things that are bypassing the broadcast networks altogether.
I had a period where everything… if it’s raining, I’m angry because it’s raining. If I miss, it’s because the pitch is too wet. It was only excuses. It was not good.
Cafu was a leader on and off the pitch and it was he who invented the concept of right-backs running from corner to corner.
I’ve just written this six-part sketch comedy series, which I’ve never done before. And I don’t know how to pitch it. Am I supposed to just pick up a camera and put stuff on YouTube? Is that how it works?
I am different as soon as I am on the pitch, because I had to fight so much and work so hard to become a professional footballer, so I have to give everything that I can.
I’m going to a great club in England, and I want to continue developing my game there. The club has put a lot of faith in me, and I want to repay them out on the pitch.
Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.
There’s hardly anything I’ve ever done that’s made me cringe; I’ve got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I’m not known for hitting bum notes.
In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It’s as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I’m saying.
It’s nice to be cheered, but I’ll always have a good attitude on the pitch.
I always make sure I work hard every day and give everything in the game, in training, and off the pitch, too.
My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London.
When we go to the pitch, that’s all we want to do – we want to win – and when the game finishes, if you win, you go home happy.
I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.
I’m really happy to be working with Jose Mourinho. He’s a great person and he’s always keen to communicate with the squad and help people to be communicative regarding what they’re to do on the pitch.
I think every footballer in the world wants to be on the pitch as much as possible.
String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string’s vibration determines the nature of its effect.
The reality is, ‘Game of Thrones’ has been a successful show for HBO, which has put us in a position to come and pitch another show and get them excited about it. And that’s what helped get us here.
When I am happy on the pitch, it’s because everything is going well off it.
As long as I am feeling good I will play football. As long as I am feeling fit, strong and being affective on and off the pitch, I will play the game I love.
Players that have had less minutes on the pitch compared to the usual starting XI will naturally concede more chances.
When I used to see things in the newspapers, going onto the pitch was the best way to get away from it.
You have a personality inside the pitch and off the pitch and in the changing room, too. The most important thing is to be respected by your teammates, and that’s the case at Tottenham.
How do I imagine my last-ever game? Maybe I’ll go out like Zidane, headbutting someone on the pitch!
People don’t see the determination behind getting on the pitch every week.
I basically drew my own family. My father’s name is Homer. My mother’s name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn’t think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.
By the way, you won’t put that thing in about me wanting to have sex on a football pitch, will you?
I have never seen a talent like Ronaldo. He always scores, scores, scores. The first game he played for Milan, Sienna away, I said to him, ‘I can’t put you on the pitch. You are 100kg.’ ‘Mister,’ he said, ‘don’t worry, I will score.’ I put him in, and he scored twice.
You’re just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don’t have to force nobody.
When I came on the tour, I thought, ‘Why don’t they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?’ Because I’ve got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, ‘Hello, how are you?’ out there.
Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.
There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, ‘This can’t be my life.’
I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
Anybody’s best pitch is the one the batters ain’t hitting that day.
I like that ‘Pitch Perfect’ is one of my first forays into film and just being seen in that kind of light, aside from some people who know me from ‘Spring Awakening’ or the other things that I’ve done. I think in so many ways it’s kind of like my own ‘Glee’ or ‘Smash’.
For me, it’s just about taking it one at-bat, one pitch, one play at a time.
I don’t want to talk too much. I want to show it on the pitch.
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. ‘Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you’ve been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
I’m on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I’m not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.
