Quotes About Tactics

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

If you never bluff, you'll rarely get called. If you bluff all the time, you'll always get called.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.

He who flees at the right time can fight again.

Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.

The eyes of a vengeful man miss few details he can turn to advantage.

much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety.

Johnson did what most politicians do to douse political fires: he formed a study group.

If you can bring someone belonging, connection, peace of mind, status, or one of the other most desired emotions, you've done something worthwhile. The thing you sell is simply a road to achieve those emotions, and we let everyone down when we focus on the tactics, not the outcomes. Who's it for and what's it for are the two questions that guide all of our decisions.