Quotes About Tactics

Politics is a lot tougher than physics.

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.

It used to be considered an art form to win a tournament without having to shove all your chips in the middle.

It's one of my basic premises for tournament play: Choose to bet the lesser amount when a smaller-sized bet will accomplish the same objective as a bigger one.

Check-raising with a drawing hand on the turn is simply a kamikaze gamble. It might work once in a while, but if you consistently attempt it, too often you'll find yourself watching the rest of the tournament from behind the rail.

The best tournament players actually try to avoid risky plays altogether. They prefer to wait for their opponents to make the risky moves. They'll wait patiently until they catch a strong hand. When they do, they'll take down their overly aggressive foes.

One or two great lay downs per tournament will give you a few extra lives while a few well-timed bluffs will give you a ton of extra chips.

There are big advantages to having a lot of chips early on in a poker tournament. You can make plays that other people can't.

In tournaments, you want to steal the blinds as cheaply as possible without risking a high percentage of your chips.

At times on overseas tours, we assess if there are more left-handers or right-handers in the opposition and accordingly, the team's composition is set.

When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.

Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.

Why would I stand there and trade punches and try to knock out George Foreman?

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

During contract negotiations, when I started to notice as well as hear from friends about Jeff Jarrett's shady business tactics, I did two things: I immediately filed a trademark for 'Broken' Matt Hardy, and started to record every conversation between Matt and anyone at that TNA office, including Ed Nordholm and Jeff Jarrett.

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.