Quotes About Tactics

For the conduct of the war: at the first, men rested extremely upon number: they did put the wars likewise upon main force and valor; pointing days for pitched fields, and so trying it out upon an even match and they were more ignorant in ranging and arraying their battles. After, they grew to rest upon number rather competent, than vast; they grew to advantages of place, cunning diversions, and the like: and they grew more skilful in the ordering of their battles.

Very few negotiations are begun and concluded in the same sitting. It's really rare. In fact, If you sit down and actually complete your negotiation in one sitting, you left stuff on the table.

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.

When you get into Indian top-order, you can wreak havoc. It's paramount to rattle the Indian top-order, otherwise, they can hurt you.

Any team, if you can rattle the quarterback you have an opportunity to win the game.

In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

You want to be on the offense and make the defense react. I feel like that.

When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don't see the great catch or the long run. What I'm looking at is how the other team defended it.

When I'm fighting, I'm trying to find a reaction. I try to make the guy move; I try to make him do things that I want him to do. If he likes moving a certain way, I try to set something up so I catch him if he moves that way.

The way I play, it's very much more a mental game than a physical game. I'm looking for space and where are players leaving space. Defensively, where are we at numerical disadvantages? Do I shift more to the left because they have more players on their right side? It's about reading the game before the game happens.

Busquets reads everything. Players like Busquets or Xabi Alonso in midfield have the capacity to read the whole game.

Teams are trying to get the advantage over the other team by what kind of reads we can get, how can we measure guys if they're tired - all these things.

At Real Madrid it is difficult to be defensive and this is my main priority.

Defending for a team as offensive as Real Madrid isn't that easy.

Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.

I think I'm quite a clever player and that I realise there are times when I can be offensive but others when I must be more compact and work for the team, because that is what matters.

People come into fights against me and say this and that, but when they realise how quick and how hard I hit, their game plan disappears.

The point system certainly governs a Grandmaster's decisions, but it can be outweighed in any given position by more important factors.

You don't take anything for granted when you play in the European game because it's so different, sizing each other up takes a game.

I think Jurgen Klopp is doing a great job at Liveprool. The style of play is the opposite of Guardiola.

Diego Simeone has done a great job with a lot of success.

Green wickets. That is why everybody wants to be a fast bowler instead of being a spinner or a batsman.

I am a very good sniper, and I can put five bullets into that red circle and I know how to throw hand grenades.

During the season, you just grind, it's a cat-and-mouse game.