Quotes About Tactics

The way Ederson plays is so brave. To dare to play like that is bravery and it also enables City to play with a much higher press. They are able to really press because they know any ball in behind he will sweep up.

So whenever Marnus Labuschagne steps out, he hits the ball over cow corner for an offspinner, or he hits it over mid-off. It's very rare through long-on. And he doesn't have a flat sweep, he has a lap sweep, like a paddle.

Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.

I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up.

You have to think tactically and you can't just go in and swing against the first best opponent.

I don't bowl at 140 kmph or 150 kmph, so my best chance of getting the batsmen out is by bowling in the right areas and getting it to swing.

You need to plan your bowling. Whenever things are not working for you - like, if you don't get swing - then you have to be ready with a backup plan and try something else.

If the keeper is standing up, in the fear of getting stumped, the batsman will not try to walk down the wicket to negate the swing.

When you get strike one, strike two, you're putting pressure on them to swing at your pitches.

I've done it before where I get guys banging their bat on the ground after their second or third at-bat because you just have so many different combinations to try to get him to swing and miss.

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

The bigs are there on the help-side if the guy goes by me, and I'm able to switch to other offensive players.

I'd never switch to man-to-man unless we were able to play good man-to-man. Ever.

I can hedge out on the screen-and-roll, I can fall back, and I can switch. I'm pretty good with everything on the pick-and-roll.

I've been involved in air strikes against Syria and operations against Syria numerous times in my career.

We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria.

Business is the systematic playing of games.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Sorry?" said Dalziel turning. "What's that you said?" He cupped a large hand to a proportionally large ear. If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can't understand. Nothing's funny if it's repeated and explained.

Agir en primitif et prévoir en stratège.

So what? That just means I can beat him with both scrolls at the same time!!