Quotes About Tactics

If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.

Quando se quer apanhar um coelho, mete-se-lhe uma doninha na toca, e se o coelho lá estiver, foge. Foi tudo o que fiz.

He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.

The Lacedemonians are not wont to ask how many the enemy are, but where they are.

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

on chess] He had learned the moves, back in Vidin, from Levitzky the tailor, who called it "the Russian game." Thus, the old man pointed out, the weak were sacrificed. The castles, fortresses, were obvious and basic; the bishops moved obliquely; the knights—an officer class—sought power in devious ways; the queen, second-in-command, was pure aggression; and the king, heart of it all, a helpless target, dependent totally on his forces for survival.

They're better tactics than mine." "Heart and head, John. They should know each other. Yours have never met.

This is it! Stay low, don't bunch up, and run like hell!

Know thy enemy," a quote he lifted from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.

It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure. The

Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

If the best that we have is an iso, or if my personnel on my team dictates that that is really good, then that's what we're going to do.

I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

Football is actually pretty limited and there are only really four phases: When you have the ball yourself, when the opponent has the ball and when you win the ball or lose the ball. That is football, really, there isn't more to it.

Emery wants us to reach the goal in two phases, playing aggressive football.

Trying to guard Kawhi on an island by yourself is tough. You gotta take the basket away and push him to your help. You want him to take a contested shot as far away from the basket as possible, because his mid-range game is phenomenal.

It's mostly the coaches the refs don't like. Like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich. Jackson is a master at setting up refs, always telling them they're against his team, playing mind games.

For every philosophical idea about how we're going to do things, there has to be a plan to get there, and we have to be able to execute it, first in practice and then in games.

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.