The playmakers need to read the game and need to be on the…

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them…

— Tiffeny Milbrett

It helps, especially in college, and even now; having good playmakers around you.

— Devlin Hodges

As a quarterback, you certainly don't want to hamstring your team in any way because - I know this more than anyone - you…

— Alex Smith

Like I always say, man, anytime you got playmakers around you it makes your job easier.

— Aaron Donald

Management is about improving your relationship with the players and the journalists, about learning to read a game better so that you can make…

— Gianluca Vialli

As you get older, you start to read the game more, and as your brain starts working more, and as you get a good…

— Ashley Young

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

— Jim Lehrer

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

— Virgil van Dijk

Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.

— Ashley Young

If I simply stay in that moment on the pitch and read the game, I can do so much more.

— Christen Press

I was simply challenged very early to learn to read a game. Offensive and defensive. That helped me a lot in retrospect.

— Jude Bellingham

You can't have three defenders moving up and one going back. The decisions a team makes are important. As a whole.

— Guus Hiddink

I have scored against every team, every country, every defender in the world.

— Romario

I wanted to play in New York when I was in my prime and I was young, fierce, lock-down [defender]. Madison Square Garden, that…

— Metta World Peace

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…

— Edward Abbey