Quotes About Tactics

When you are a coach, you are watching how the team is positioning itself on the field - if your team is in possession of the ball, you are already anticipating what could happen if you lose the ball.

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

The use of water cannon could have changed the face of British policing; it would have made a huge difference to British policing.

Jose Mourinho doesn't have a magic wand, and you wave the wand, and everything goes the way you want.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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

There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.

Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help.

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.

I do not like to use a player solely to make a member of the opposing team, for one simple reason: when we cannot retrieve the ball, we are forced to defend with ten men, giving the opponents an advantage.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.

By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives.

I am an attacking batsman, but I've learned a lot about patience. There are clever bowlers who can pick your weak points, so I have to be a bit patient, play out a spell or two.

You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

The only thing the defense has to do is take care of the client and see to it that they attack every weak spot on the prosecution's case. It's up to the judge to make sure that they don't pull any fast ones.

Barcelona focus a lot on what Barcelona does and not on what others are going to do. It creates a different way of working. Of course we studied our opponents to see their weak points and their strong points, but 70 per cent of the time, it was about us.

The benefit of fast play is that you'll get players to commit their chips with relatively weak hands since it will be hard for them to believe that you have a strong hand every single time. The downside is that your opponents will raise weak when you have nothing at all, forcing you to fold.

It is basic, serve at the weak point of your opponent.

In an election campaign, sleep is for the weak.

By folding often, I give other players the false impression that I'm a weak player - a player who can be easily bluffed. Trust me; I'm not a weak player.