Quotes About Tactics

In small ball poker, you'll need to widen your starting hand requirements beyond pocket pairs and A-K.

Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.

You can't just shoot your way out of every scenario in 'Resident Evil' games. You have to use your intelligence.

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

If you're playing against an aggressive side, you need to play an aggressive game.

In England and Germany, perhaps, there is more of a focus on the physical side of the game, in breaking down the opposition's play, especially against the lower placed sides.

I have always said that playing against Allegri's sides was difficult because he is a very organised tactician. His players always know what their role is on the field.

Both sides of the game, defensively and offensively, are important.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing.

You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.

From 1994 to 1996, I turned over every rock in Little Rock, looking for a silver bullet that would take down the Clintons in time for the 1996 election.

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.

Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.

I've learned that football is a stupid sport for intelligent people because the simplest things are truly also the most difficult to get right.

When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. —Plutarch Sayings of the Spartans

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. —Plutarch

From what I've seen, the operations of war are constituted less of glorious attacks and valiant defences and more of an ongoing succession of mundane and often excruciating balls-ups.

Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it ?

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat.

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.