Quotes About Tactics

The heel runs the match.

The most expensive way to do business is to do it deal by deal, each of which is highly contentious.

In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people.

when the games going against you, stay calm - and cheat.

Now, in my experience there is only one way to fight a ship, and that is to get below on the side opposite to the enemy and find a snug spot behind a stout bulkhead.

when the games going against you, stay calm - and cheat. - Flashman At The Charge

the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

El objeto de la guerra es siempre estar en mejor situación para librar otra guerra.

and don't take no shit from nobody, unless taking shit from them is part of your master plan to get the best of them by tricking them into being your friend.

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

Surprise is the essence of attack!

The operational word in every competent defense is attack. If you're explaining and defending, you're losing.

When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

Van Gaal has a good vision of football, but it is not mine. He wants to gel winning teams and has a militaristic way of working with his tactics. I want individuals to think for themselves.

Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.

You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.

We've got to understand what wins and what loses for us. What's our formula? For us, it might not be flashy. It might be boring football, but it works for us.

My size works against me as well, as some players I would just touch and they would fall over to get a free kick.

I started the 1998 World Cup with Teddy Sheringham up front but always planned for Michael Owen to face Colombia in our final group game because they defended square and a quick striker would be able to exploit the space behind them.

Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options.

In the 2015 World Cup, there was a drastic change in the move towards higher scores. Scores moved from 300 to 330 on average and that meant you had to change everyone's default mode.

Even before the World Cup in 2010 I had said that there were no world champions who aim to stifle the opposition's play and somehow hope to win. These teams do not go far.

The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.