Quotes About Tactics

Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.

Anytime you get to play a team twice, you have a feel for what they do and how they play.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

Anytime a guy asks to compete against you, they usually think they have the advantage.

I think anytime you can slow things down in a big situation, it's an advantage.

Every manager has their own way of approaching games.

Armies are not only for offensives.

We play to win, with the arms that we have.

Mes enfants, you mustn't go at things head-on, you are too weak; take it from me and take it from an angle... Play dead, play the sleeping dog.

The Athenian strategy moves to the top when things are going well. Spartanism grabs the throne when the world is going to hell.

The first rule is never to split your forces unless it is necessary to survival. The second rule is to attack if you are going to fight, and if you are not going to attack, avoid battle. The third rule is to choose the time and place of battle and never leave that choice to the enemy. The fourth rule is to avoid encirclement at all cost. And the final rule is to attack and destroy the enemy where he is weakest.

If you would have asked the coach if he'd like to have a team of players like me, skilled guys who could skate, pass and shoot, play hard, but clean or a team full of players like Billy, who weren't the most skilled, but who would intimidate and attempt to put an opponent through the boards, he tell you in a nanosecond he'd want a team full of "Billys.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

On the qualities required of naval officers, Roosevelt was outspoken: "They must have skill in handling the ships, skill in tactics, skill in strategy . . . the dogged ability to bear punishment, the power and desire to inflict it, the daring, the resolution, the willingness to take risks and incur responsibilities which have been possessed by the great captains of all ages, and without which no man can ever hope to stand in the front rank of fighting men.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.

when you're negotiating, you should always go for the thing you're least likely to get first. Then you can always back off to some of these other things if that doesn't work.

With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order their young to slaughter each other. Analysis -endless analysis- has been offered about the two men's tactics, as if they were coaches preparing for the Super Bowl.

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

Manipulation is the most powerful and therefore is the deadliest of all weapons.

Wait for the moment they least expect.

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him.

The point of war is to win, Kachiun. It does not matter how we do it, or how long it takes.