Quotes About Tactics

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

Most leaders would agree that they'd be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

Most one-run games are lost, not won.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

Patience is the key to any battle.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.

Our philosophy is to go for one company at a time, and go for its finances. If we had gone down and protested outside HLS every day for the last five years we would have got nowhere