Quotes About Tactics

There's nothing balanced about the 50 percent run, 50 percent pass because that's 50 percent stupid.

I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

Sometimes you have to stutter step; sometimes you have to spin inside. You have to run some games.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

I think when a new manager who has a specific way of playing comes to any league, he doesn't think about adapting but rather looks for ways to slowly implement his style so it can be developed for years to come.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

I could also lose to lesser fighters than David Haye, based on the fact that styles make fights.

I have to be smarter than my opponents. I have to figure out their styles in the ring. I have to be three or four steps ahead of them. So my mind has to be sharp.

I've played under different managers, different styles, and most of my career, I was asked to play long.

I understand now the different games and the different approaches that you need to take at different times, with different styles of play.

Styles make fights.

The way you adapt and play against different teams and different styles is going to be important.

You see, in chess we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

Certain styles of play take a bit longer.

Fights are all about styles and matchups.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

If I see an opening, I'll go for the submission.

The striking game is always a lottery game, so I prefer to take the safe situation. Submission is the best for me. I'm the guy looking for it all the time.

Yeah, I want these fights where people are going to stand in front of me and I'm going to knock them out. But is that going to be best for me in the long run? Probably not. I want those situations and knockouts and submissions against guys who won't just give them to me.

Of course I will submit if I have a chance, but I always prefer to finish a fight in a stand-up position.

It is best to keep a substitution open for the final 15 minutes, as you never know if you are going to lose someone to injury and be left with 10 men.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.