Quotes About Tactics

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.

When I'm talking about a football brain, the very first time the ball's kicked in the air and Lukaku completely outjump's you and you get absolutely nowhere near it, that's when your brain clicks in. You know what you do, let him go and win it.Take a step off and when he flicks it on, guess what, you bring it down on your chest.

You can't make three or four spinners bowl the exact number of overs. You don't see the number of overs bowled by them before you make a bowling change; you see who looks effective and make a bowling change.

Obama is dedicated to a 'drip, drip' doctrine.

The object is to hit the other guy and not get hit. I think the least amount of damage you can take is the best route.

We need the ball even to defend; that's our objective: having the ball and having it as far as possible from our goal as possible.

What I will miss the most about Guardiola? His obsession with the game and his knowledge, which makes you a better football player.

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

Earl knew he was weak at framing questions in such a way that he could use the witness's answers against him ten questions later.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day...

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won

The enemy gate is down.

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters. Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

Whatever your gravity is when you get to the door, remember?the enemy's gate is down . If you step through your own door like you're out for a stroll, you're a big target and you deserve to get hit. With more than a flasher.

Nonsense, said Graff. Ender always has plans within plans.

A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.

Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin

No army had ever fragmented itself like that before, but ender was not planning to do anything that had been done before, either.

Because here's the thing?we don't give a shit about fairness here. We're soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to the enemy and outnumber the other bastard every chance they get. Your kind of murder only works among civilians. And you were too cocky, too stupid, too insane to realize it.

What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy. Then they'd come home and take over Earth. OK, not that.