Quotes About Tactics

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.

Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

Man's best friend is a really good plan!

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.

It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.

Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.