Quotes About Tactics

I think there was a time where the target man went out of fashion and it was all about the small and quick striker.

It is true that when you're defending a target, you tend to be more ruthless when you're defending a lower target than a 300-plus one because you have the comfort of runs in the latter case.

Targeted marketing has existed for as long as there's been marketing.

Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.

As a captain, I don't have long-term targets in my mind as it is better to go with short targets.

There is not a shortage of assets in northern Syria but a shortage of targets.

Strategic Work is all about the big questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Tactical Work is all about answers: This is the system we use to do each task. This is how we do it, how we measure it, how we monitor it.

Fonseca allows me to play both offensively and defensively, and my main task is to change the direction of attacking moves.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

I'm taught to adapt and exploit every situation in the ring.

Chess taught me patience.

We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

If you have a good midfield, you have a good team.

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

Against Chelsea, you will have periods in the game when you are right up against it, when they keep the ball. They are pretty solid the way they set their team up.

Just have to be smart. Can't hurt your team.

The tactical way of Pep is the most incredible I have ever seen. When he was at Barcelona, that was their best team, I think.

When I lose a big game, I am angry and always in a bad mood, and I will talk about other stuff to bring attention away from my team also.

When teams are really out on me, I'm trying to drag them out as much as possible so my teammates can make plays.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

The teams that defend well are as important as those that attack well. If you don't concede goals it is much easier to win but it is all about having balance.

Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.