Quotes About Tactics

Nobody I ever broke bread with - and I see players all the time - talked about using their head running the football. I've seen Barry Sanders and Eric Dickerson and Marcus Allen and Franco Harris, and we've all been together - we were all together at the Super Bowl - and no one talked about using their head.

There are lots of different ways of playing football. It depends on how tall you are, what position you're in.

Rose had some openings that I could fit my game in. Even though she was taller than me and had a longer reach, I was stronger in short distance, my strikes connect better.

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

diplomats took up the vastly more

Normandy operations, typified by Quesada's armored column cover and Broadhurst's contact cars, thus fulfilled a concept born a quarter-century earlier, amid the mud of Flanders: the notion of the airplane as a partner of the tank, as a "counter antitank" weapon. In that war, then-Colonel J.F.C. Fuller, Great Britain's greatest armor advocate, had recognized that cooperation between air and armor forces was "of incalculable importance.

Any fool can attack an army and die. A wise man doesn't plan an attack; he plans a victory.

Wars aren't won with guns; they're won with checkbooks.

Amateurs beat the bush, seeking to frighten hiding game into the open. Even when this tactic worked, the amateur found himself poorly prepared and poorly positioned for the kill shot. The professional studied his prey, learned its patterns, and positioned

As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse.

Know your enemy. Know the terrain. Know the conditions under which the battle will be fought.

Conditions plus principles determine strategy.

We have to use instead of the weapon of criticism, the criticism of weapons.

Strategic thought is needed in missionary work. From the point of view of salvation, all souls are equal. From the view of missionary strategy, they are not equal.

Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.

That's smart. Once Sonya's able to talk, we'll need to move." He smiled. "Sydney's turning into a battle mastermind." "Hey, she's not in charge here," I teased. "She's just a soldier." "Right." He lightly brushed his fingers against my cheek. "Sorry, Captain." "General," I corrected, catching my breath at that brief touch.

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever. Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.

You must not have played chess in a while. The king is the weakest piece in the game." He gave Justin a level look. "The queen's the strongest.

Few battles are won by strength alone. Cunning and knowing your resources can help you overpower the most powerful.

The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.

The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter

From the earliest beginnings of Lyndon Johnson's political life—from his days at college when he had captured control of campus politics—his tactics had consistently revealed a pragmatism and a cynicism that had no discernible limits.