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The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.

Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what's going to happen, but it's also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you're not going to get it right at the very beginning.

I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.

My game plan - doesn't matter who I play - is to play on my terms, to control as much as I can, to try to get control of the centre of the court, to try to dictate and make them move, to be their director rather than letting them impose their game on me.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.