Quotes About Tactics

It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'

Balance is the secret for every team. There cannot be a defensive formation and an attacking formation: such a concept is a limitation.

You cannot have a situation where you think that if you want to attack, then you play this formation, and if you want to defend, then you play this formation.

I just think when you have success playing a certain way and formation, you are asking for more problems by changing it.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.

It doesn't matter how much experience Jayson Velez has, whether he fought for a world title or not. I'm going to see how he fights, and I'll know what to do.

I've fought a lot of guys with power. It takes more than power to win a fight.

Well, I tried to play defense. But when they did call a foul on Shaq, I tried to make sure they called a foul.

In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you're going to get the foul.

If you're playing the best of 19, and it's 7-7 and there's only five frames left, you tend to take a few more chances.

It's frustrating when teams try to take me out. But there's a lot of other ways to win besides shooting.

Any time you roll up a corner and you have a safety standing behind him helping out the corner, it's frustrating for any player.

As I always say, the fundamental thing in football is to defend as well as attack. And to attack well means that the forwards must first help to defend. That's where the work begins.

I learned how to be a smart, tough, fundamentally sound football player.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

as the plans of march made by great generals in

A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.

His plan has good points and bad points...as any plan would at this stage. A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.

Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely." "That's

Feints within feints within feints.

They've lost the initiative, which means they've lost the war." Gurney

Only the puppet masters were important. How the puppets moved—that told you what the puppet masters were doing.

Observe the plans within plans within plans