Quotes About Tactics

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

One of the most horrifying and surprising evolutions we have witnessed among our widespread campus network is the rapid movement away from tolerating opposing ideas and respectful debate to the deployment of obscene bully tactics from the left.

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

All Premier League fixtures are tricky, you always need your wits about you whether you are playing top or bottom.

If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

Here's my favorite bonehead concept from the 1990s in the Pentagon: the theory of anti-access, area-denial asymmetrical strategies. Why do we call it that? Because it's got all those A's lined up I guess. This is gobbledygook for 'If the United States fights somebody, we're going to be huge. They're going to be small.'

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.

Playing fast and aggressive poker can help manufacture chips out of thin air and is one element of the game that separates the great players from the merely very good. But beware; it can be risky.

When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.

Honestly, I think big guys are easier to fight. They don't move as fast, they get tired quickly and they're not as technical.

David Silva is not physical but he is still one of the best players in the Premier League because he is a smart thinker.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

Football's always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.

I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It's a thinking man's game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

I want to do a lot of things in my career and keep building on my talent, learn more about the tactics both with the ball and without it in the final third.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.