Quotes About Tactics

With me, I come in the ring and start thinking right away. My thought process is just to put a guy down. I'm like a technician and learn to break it all down - from head to toe.

Fighting Manny Pacquiao is like playing a very fast game of chess. He was very fast and sharp. You have to be alert at all times and on your toes. There was a lot of incoming.

Between 50 overs and 20 overs, there is a big difference, because there is 30 extra overs of fielding and six extra overs to bowl, and that can take its toll.

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

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

one's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's distance from the scene of conflict.

The real action is in the enemy's reaction.

Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, it results in confusion, fear, and retreat. [...] The third rule is: Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

The Ninth Rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

The move is there, but you must see it.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

it was always impossible to put a price on making your enemy shit their breeches.

I am hard pressed on my right; my center is giving way; situation excellent. I am attacking." General Ferdinand Foch

playing "cautiously" is not the same as playing "smartly.

As you can see, the words fair play are not in my vocabulary. Well, they are in my vocabulary, but only to say that they aren't.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

My head aches every time Donald Trump successfully dodges a question with this reoccurring tactic. What's his worst offense? I don't know. How long is this article?

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....