Quotes About Tactics

If you want to compete for the Premier League title, you need to win ugly sometimes.

I don't mind if we play ugly and win, as long as we win.

The business part of the game is ugly.

I've had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.

If you've got to win ugly, do it.

If we need to play ugly to win a match, we are going to do that.

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Victory is the main object in war.

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.