Quotes About Tactics

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.

Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.