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Quotes About Tactics

Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.
~ Peter Pace
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
~ Al Alvarez
Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
~ George Herbert
Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders
~ Kevin Keegan
Deliberation is a good thing when it comes to fighting wars.
~ Rahm Emanuel
I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.
~ Denis Leary
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
~ Sun Tzu
Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.
~ Georg Ebers
Paul Harris is a buffet bowler - you just help yourself.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
~ Alfred Thayer Mahan
An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.
~ Jose Raul Capablanca
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
~ George S. Patton
Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.
~ Mario Balotelli
Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically
~ Mao Zedong
If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
~ Horatio Nelson
Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.
~ Michael Stean
It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.
~ Terry Pratchett
If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.
~ Richard Branson
Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
~ Voltaire
A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!
~ Savielly Tartakower
Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.
~ Fabius Maximus