Quotes About Tactics

Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

And from this story I learned about the geopolitics of taking out one's salami.

If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

The United States doesn't need to win wars. It needs to simply disrupt things so the other side can't build up sufficient strength to challenge it.

Sit on him? What kind of battle strategy is that?

I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die.

The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

His Furriness, the Long-term Planner.

Once an opponent fell into a pattern, they became predictable—and they could be defeated.

You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And tell him you love him. Preferably while in bed.

Battle of Ajnadayn

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

Votbinnik had Jandorf practically in Zugzwang (his pieces all tied up, Bill explained)

At least, I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end.

la emancipación de las mujeres, que han tomado por asalto el mundo de los hombres. Tuvimos que actuar como ellos, aprender sus tácticas y competir.

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Teamwork is a significant part of 'Counter-Strike: Condition Zero' and many of the secondary objectives require you to effectively work with your squad.

Romero, I was beating him two rounds to zero, I was dominating the whole fight. He was able to catch me with a punch with about a minute left. If I would have just danced around for a minute, I would have got that win.

We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.

The Lakers do this all the time. They overload the side the ball's on, and play zone on the weak side.

I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.

The shoot-and-chase approach had become big in hockey. Teams would come up to the blue line and shoot the puck around our boards deep in our zone, then swarm in after it forechecking, trying to regain possession.

It's really hard to go on a 10-, 12-play drive against a really good defense and put the ball in the end zone.