Quotes About Strategy

I like to have fewer players. That way, everyone is plugged into what you're doing. There is a risk attached to that sometimes but it's good to have a smaller squad. People have more chance of playing; they're ready and more motivated. Having 18 real players is better than having 25 or 26 not playing.

Every manager deserves a part of whatever success you have. They build squads, and particularly at this football club they build the style of play.

My job is to prepare the squad.

When Pep Guardiola accepted the Manchester City job, he would have asked himself one question about the club's current squad: is this a team that can win me the Champions League?

But charity is a very complicated thing. It's important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

I believe in simplicity. Where some people in TNA take the high-flying back flip route, I'll replace that with a punch or a nice kick square to the face.

You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.

This is boxing - you can't really say what is going to happen because anything can happen in that square ring.

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

Sometimes you just square the ball, and somebody else shoots, but some assists are so nice, and the passing is very important. We creators have a thing with the attackers.

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

It's not 64 squares. It's a battlefield. There's no luck, there's no dice. It's just you and your opponent.

They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I'd nominate squash.

You don't have to use aggression to squash somebody. You have to use your brain.

When we're leading during the game, we have to squeeze the opponent.

Conservative politics are about pragmatism, realism and stability.

Businesses look for stability; they look for direction.

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

It is easy and quick to fritter away gains regarding macroeconomic stability.

Our goal in Liverpool is to create the kind of stability that the Red Sox enjoy. We are committed to building for the long term.

If seven or eight players play offensively, then it's clear that the offensive force is greater than the defensive stability. That's what I often say internally.

We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose.