Quotes About Tactics

You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.

Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.

I go hunting for my opponents high up the field, and I put stock in physical one-on-ones and winning individual duels.

Stoke are a team who are very well organised and very disciplined.

When you allow stolen bases, that changes the game.

Harry Kane is a very complicated player to stop.

As a full back, your role is just as much in playing in midfield, getting forward and creating chances, as it is stopping them at the other end.

Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.

Football never stops, and that's why you need a big squad.

When it comes to playoff time, the game slows down, the offense slows down and you've got to be able to get stops.

If you want to win in a tough place, you're going to have to make tough plays, you're going to have to get stops.

Offence doesn't concern me. It's easier for people to get layups than it is to get stops on defence or a block.

In my day, we had mastered high-intensity conflict, which is why I think we were so successful in Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and then eventually the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.

Powerful drawing hands, like a pair with a flush draw or even conventional straight and flush draws, are often good opportunities to try a semi-bluff - making a bet or raise that you hope will not be called, but leaves you some outs if it is.

Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

This is a strange game.

A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.

Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

When the Normandy Invasion was planned, a very specific strategic objective was given, and that strategic objective was the basis upon which the plan for the Normandy Invasion was derived.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.