Quotes About Tactics

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

I am never going to be much of a physical presence. For me, it's more about taking my strength and finding a way to use it as an advantage.

When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.

United are capable of setting up a low block and making it difficult, but they're also capable of coming out and pressing high.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

I've been pretty good at negotiating.

My daughter had a Howard Dean Beanie Baby and that didn't help him. T-shirts don't win elections.

By the rules of debate, if you lose your cool, you've lost the game.

There are no points for civility or decency when it comes to prosecuting the campaign against Donald Trump.

Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it.

My favourite sport's cricket and one of the key things in cricket is to know when to declare.

I like playing deeper, but I'm not Casemiro.

I play the number ten role but also off the side or deeper.

The whole key about the no-huddle is getting first downs because if you're getting three-and-out, it kind of defeats the purpose.

Defence is our best attack.

My game was always about good defence.

In football, you cannot only play because of your quality and talent. Defence is a must.

In football, there has always been this idea of having a left-footer and a right-footer in central defence.

I was only used to 4-3-3. For me as a left-winger you have also a left midfielder and a left-back behind you. But in a 4-4-2 you are basically also the left midfielder so you have to help more in defence and I wasn't used to that.

In the past, you would have been classed as a sweeper if you were put in the middle of a three-man defence.