Quotes About Tactics

Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into playing defense for that long... it's hard to run on offense after you've been hunkering down on D for that long.

If it's an outside zone play, you have the green light to cut-block.

Hostile states' use of proxies in war zones to inflict damage on U.S. interests and troops is a constant, longstanding concern.

Being solid in your own zone, being a good faceoff guy, those are things that are all important as you go deep in the playoffs.

I'm a zone guy. I'm a man guy.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached, but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.

When in doubt, win the trick.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.

It's been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: 'I'm going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.' You've just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

I try to play in one way all my career and here, with high pressing, but it is different in England. Many times the ball is more in the air than the grass, and I have to adapt.

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

It's easier to fine tune in club football, and you have the chance to win the Champions League every year.

The bigger the pressure, the sharper I am, the more in tune with my body I am, the better my tactics seem to be. A lot of people crumble under pressure; they do something crazy.

Little things that I've emphasized are turning in pockets and looking to penetrate and finding these spaces and playing at a good tempo when we're in the middle third.

If someone wants to try to hit a spinner over mid-on, with the ball turning away from the blade, there is a chance of taking a wicket.

Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.