Quotes About Tactics

A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it's a good plan.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Strength lies not in defense but in attack.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Overeem is really smart when he's fighting, had the patience to wait for the right moment.

I traditionally like to be patient, calm and look for openings - try to box for a few rounds until I figure out what the best thing in the ring will be for me.

A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two - to fix your opponent's expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.

One of the things historians do is we look for patterns. And in many ways, Donald Trump is a very easy read, because he operates in certain ways. And he is the king of distraction.

A lot of players try to buy penalties, and sometimes defenders can't do a lot about it.

Being an agitator gives me an opportunity to draw penalties against the other team. That's one part that brings emotion to my game.

My goal is to defend our goal, save shots and not concede goals. But one thing that could happen is to score a goal from my penalty box to the other box directly.

Knowing where a team will usually place a penalty can be the difference between winning or losing.

We have always found it easier, and still do, when the opponent plays football as well, when they don't just think in defensive terms, don't just sit inside their penalty box. It's just nicer when the opponent plays football.

I've always stuck my arms behind my back anyway when trying to block a shot in the penalty area.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

I feel that a lot of people say that your best passing attack is having a good run game. I couldn't agree more with that.

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity with and without the ball.

You can learn a lot from Pep Guardiola. From pre-season to the match itself. He has a vision of the game that is impressive.

Pep was always an inspiration to me when I left Inter because of his methodology, and the way he plays such fantastic football.