Quotes About Tactics

We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not to make mistakes, and we'd rely on our defense to keep us in the game and make big plays to put us in position to win. Kyle Orton might not be the flashiest quarterback, but the guy is a winner, and that formula worked for us.

Against Novak and Rafa, you have balls to hit, but they are so physically really tough. And Roger, he just takes position in the court. He tries to go forward all the time, go for the winners. Then you just don't play tennis against him.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

Normally when we play against Brazil, we will just try to stop them from winning.

When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.

Everybody thinks you can get by by being Mr. Nice Guy, but that's not what winning programs do. Winning programs have a plan.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Offense is great, but defense wins championships.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

The one who punches doesn't win. The one who dodges punches wins.

What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.

Common wisdom in Texas Hold'em suggests that you should raise before the flop if you're planning to play a hand. The saying goes, 'Raise or fold,' but is that correct? Well, it's not the worst advice, but limiting yourself to one of these two options would be a mistake.

My favorite poker game is No Limit Texas Hold 'Em.

Experienced no-limit Texas Hold'em players understand the importance of reading flop texture.