Quotes About Tactics

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

[...]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.

In any game between power and patience, bet on patience.

To win against your enemies you have to do the OPPOSITE of what they expect you to do.

Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

Sometimes winning the battle doesn't mean you are winning the war.

In the course of a campaign, if it is at all long, you will see one belligerent profiting by the lessons furnished him by the successes and mistakes, perfecting the methods of the other, who will improve on him in turn. But all that is a thing of the past. With the terrible advance of artillery, the wars of the future, if there are to be any more wars, will be so short that, before we have had time to think of putting our lessons into practice, peace will have been signed.

It is necessary to adapt oneself to the enemy's latest formula so as to defend oneself against him; then he starts a fresh innovation and yet, as in other human things, the old tricks always come off.

Always remember that, when all's said and done, what does most to accelerate the evolution of the art of war is wars themselves. In

The truly skillful politician is one who, when he comes to a fork in the road, goes both ways.

There are times when you have to put yourself at a disadvantage in order to accomplish a larger mission and secure a longer-tern goal.

La Posta, eighty miles east of San Diego. That's where they taught us stealth, camouflage, and patrolling, the essential field craft of the commando.

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum — Flavius Vegetius Renatus, fourth century).

It's easy. Everybody else on the field, they look where the opposing line is. I look where they're going to be. Then I just head somewhere else." —BARRY ADAMS, RUNNING BACK FOR THE CHICAGO BEARS, ON HOW HE WAS ABLE TO RUSH 2,437 YARDS IN A SINGLE SEASON, SHATTERING THE PREVIOUS RECORD (2,105, BY ERIC DICKERSON IN 1984)

Look at a chessboard. Even the most elegant of wins required sacrifice.

The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I shall attack.

Im just as human as you. But its no use asking me for a final statement. As I say, I deal in tactics. Also statistics: for every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.