Quotes About Tactics

Barcelona are special in the way they play. They're a machine.

At Barcelona, it wasn't about winning all the time; it was first about how to win.

If you're going to play the bargaining game, you just need to make the other side mad. You want them to get a little annoyed. Then you know that you've come in with a good price.

In the postseason, as many ways as you can get on base as possible is big.

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

Of course you don't want to make outs on the bases , but there are times you have to be assertive in order to get other things that you want.

A finisher doesn't always mean you have to take the game deep and then bash to finish. It is all about understanding situations and then adjusting your game with the aim that you have to get the job done.

Even just my basics are so effective against a guy like Max Holloway.

Most teams don't do anything. Really it's just take the ball out the basket, pick-and-roll, and run.

Generally speaking, you want to put three or four shooters around a dominant center and have him just roll to the basket.

My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

We have to be prepared to play some attritional cricket at times.

philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

the key to all diplomacy—was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing.

It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.

Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

The Germans drew up elaborate plans for moving Italian forces to the French front, and the Italians enjoyed this planning greatly.

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)

When all else fails, complicate matters.

Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems

This craggy political landscape was the kind of terrain in which Kissinger moved with the deftness of an Indian scout.

What Kennedy had taught him, he said, was not to hit complex problems head-on. Instead, envision the problem as a wall of bricks. "Try to identify a few bricks -- if you take them out the wall will collapse by itself," Grant had said.