Quotes About Tactics

In a sport that's as close as tennis, I feel like anything that you can do to give yourself an edge is definitely worth doing.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.

In politics, you make use of every opportunity.

Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.

How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?

Do not grab pawns at the expense of development or position.

In the realm of political action, laws are few and far indeed: skills are everything.

The increase in the artillery of all armies, the improvement of ammunition, the adoption of smokeless powder and of new explosives, the improvement in tactics, all these must lead to such great losses in the artillery service that their action will be paralyzed, or the losses in the armies will become so tremendous that war itself will be impossible.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

Their plans were improved with the best advice.

To the confusion of our enemies.

We elevate the status of others with compliments, flattery, ingratiating comments, public roasts, awards, and outright praise and adoration. People around the world systematically use the tactics of politeness—hesitations, indirectness, apologies, formalities—when speaking with higher-status individuals. These subtle shifts in phrasing, syntax, and delivery convey the respect that the speaker feels toward the recipient.

Plan specifically so you can implement flexibly.

The end justifies the means?" He raised his eyebrows and laughed. "Now that's different. That kind of thinking gets a man into trouble. There are some means that no end will ever justify. But fighting dirty, occasionally, is no bad thing. Neither's breaking the rules. Provided you remember one thing." "Which is?" "You have to understand the rules in the first place if you're going to break them.

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.

A manager may move a pitcher to a different playing position and later that inning move him back to pitch again. If he does, he cannot move him again during that same inning.

tortoise always manages to win the race by using its brains.

Fooling around with marginal hands is just a tool for the players who knows how to let a hand go when he gets in trouble (which will often be the case!).

probing bets to be a little smaller than my continuation bets, since I'm starting from a weaker position. (It was my opponent, rather than me, who took the lead in the hand.) Anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent of the pot is a good range.