Quotes About Strategy

The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves, kick it; if it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

I can always make it a rule to get there first with the most men.

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.

The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.

Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.

International sport is war without shooting.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.

Learn to think continentally.

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world - as far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

You can't catch trout with dry breeches.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Football games aren't won, they're lost.

The reward of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.