Quotes About Tactics

Any time you use military force, you have got to have a clear purpose that military forces can achieve.

Sean Sweeney is a defensive guy that did a great job with Milwaukee.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

As a bowler our job is to create doubts in the minds of the batsmen.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

I have the mindset of a coach. I have to think, what would a coach think? How would a coach feel if I'm playing a guy a certain way?

I've worked in a lot of elections and it can feel like you're fighting a battle. You get into a mindset of 'we've got to win. If they're doing it, we're going to do it too.'

Sometimes you can't even defend 350 and sometimes, you can defend even 250. It's all about mindset.

Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Proteste herauszufordern ist meistens Taktik, Proteste niederzuschießen ist meist ein Verbrechen, aber Proteste herauszufordern um sie niederzuschießen, ist Perversion.

Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.

The art of looking at the problem from the other person's point of view, identifying his opportunities and his interests, an art that has traditionally been practiced by diplomats, lawyers, and chess players, is at the center of strategic analysis.

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

The pudgy one moved his bishop and immediately turned the beetle around and started it trudging back the other way. "If the beetle just cuts across the corner, is time up then?" Starling asked. "Of course time's up then," the pudgy one said loudly, without looking up. "Of course it's up then. How do you play? Do you make him cross the whole board? Who do you play against, a sloth?

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. —Savielly Tartakover (Polish GM)

Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs. I

Maskirovka (masquerade) is a technique developed by the Russian military in the early part of the last century that can be summarized by three words: deception, denial, and disinformation.

You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?

Earlyworm rolled the words along the table like a fragmentation grenade.

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle....

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions depending on what I think will help our election most.