Quotes About Tactics

It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.

So you know how to make a democracy do whatever you want." A gloating expression. "The technique is quite subtle but easy. You create a system where most people are dissatisfied, vaguely or deeply.

The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

You see some of the bigger guards, like Deron Williams and even Baron Davis back in the day. They would bump you with their shoulder and you were going to fall back.

You can come up with whatever tactics you want as a coach but if you don't have the tools to execute you will struggle, and if you don't have willing players that are ready to commit to the cause than you will struggle.

What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

The key is developing your game in both directions: in the build-up, joining the attack at the right moment and also in defence. You have to win the one-on-one situations and need the required pace and technique. These are the decisive factors for a defender.

If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

Without the ball, you can't win.

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

I'll do whatever it takes for us to win games of cricket. If I have to sledge, I'll get involved like that. I'll try and intimidate a player if I have to.

There are matches you have to win, but when you realise that you cannot win, you have to make sure you don't lose.

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.