Quotes About Tactics

English football is very different from Italian; it's more physical, and matches are always very open.

It's always like that with Italian teams, they're competitive, they know what they want and they know how to get it.

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

Playing against an Italian team is harder than all the other leagues. The Italians won't score lots of goals, but they won't concede many, either.

Italians work hard physically and tactically.

A compact defense has always been the basis of Italy's team.

The defenders in Italy are stronger, and that makes me better. Serie A is played in a different way to other leagues.

Scoring lots of goals in Italy is much more difficult: they are experts in defending.

I've become accustomed to playing against four defenders throughout my career, but in Italy, I have to play against five.

Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.

It's always complicated to play against Italy.

Italy is a very competitive league, where most of the teams wait for you.

It's great to win the British title. I wanted to control the fight behind my jab and then land the right hand.

I would beat Michael Bisping. I would jab his face the whole night. Easy.

I think my ideal position is to join the attack a bit more like I did at Shakhtar. I played more as a box-to-box midfielder, so I played a little bit further forward.

The fact that La Follette had to use machine tactics to beat the machine suggests that machines themselves are in some way intrinsic to politics—that is, all political leaders must assemble coalitions whose members do not always share the same goals, and must often be brought along with bribery, inducements, threats, and argument.

Perhaps the most important role for a second is analyzing adjourned positions jointly with the player. Sometimes this means all-night sessions, so that the player has a variety of tactics to employ when play is resumed the next day. Soviet players were traditionally serviced by a team of seconds, each performing an assigned task. For example, there could be an endgame specialist, an opening theoretician, a physical trainer, a "go-for," and sometimes a psychologist.

he showed consummate folly in allowing the Duke to fight on ground of his own choosing.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

This was a standard Wall Street ritual. You obtained an offer from another bank, then used that offer to try to persuade your current employer to give you a raise. It's the only way to get ahead at an investment bank, and senior managers, though furious when you do this, will think you are a loser if you do not. It's not uncommon for a new salesman or trader to multiply his starting salary by as much as ten times in a few years, using such negotiating tactics.

In 1988, a group of prominent homosexuals got together in Warrentown, Virginia, to map out their plan to get homosexuality accepted by the general public. In the book that resulted from their meeting, they revealed a strategy that achieves its effect "without reference to facts, logic or proof . . . the person's beliefs can be altered whether he is conscious of the attack or not."1

Harold Laswell's famous definition of politics as a social process determining "who gets what, when, and how," there can be little doubt that chimpanzees engage in it. Since in both humans and their closest relatives the process involves bluff, coalitions, and isolation tactics, a common terminology is warranted.

Moreover, not unlike presidential candidates who hold babies up in the air as soon as the cameras are rolling, male chimps vying for power develop a sudden interest in infants, which they hold and tickle in order

The Pin is mightier than the sword