Quotes About Tactics

Another weapon of war was alcohol, accelerating in the eighteenth century.

So dispatched, Aristagoras traveled to Athens—the most powerful city in Greece. Here he changed tactics: instead of speaking with the ruler, he addressed the crowd (in accordance with another of Herodotus's rules, that it seems to be easier to fool a crowd than a single person) and appealed directly to the Athenians to help the Ionians.

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it

You can lay your strategies as carefully as you like, but women will undo them at a stroke.

Here we come upon a terrible facet of ethically asymmetric warfare: when your enemy has no scruples, your own scruples become another weapon in his hand.

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.

There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.

It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.

Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

Strength is but one aspect of power.

Battles are not won by strength alone!

We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.