Quotes About Tactics

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

The way we play is the way every team want to play, but not a lot of teams can play that amazing way.

When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.

Sometimes it is difficult to play against teams who just drop back and try to defend.

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

When I've watched teams that play with five at the back and wing-backs, I've looked at their starting positions and positions out of possession because that comes a little bit more unnaturally to me.

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." "What

Had the generals seen the battlefield clearly, reclaiming Schmidt would have been the least of their concerns.

Thomas Paine, who had a shrewd eye for military matters, was closer to the mark in a public letter to Admiral Howe published in early 1777. "In all the wars which you have formerly been concerned in, you had only armies to contend with," Paine observed. "In this case, you have both an army and a country to combat.

As required by the unwritten rules of military calamity, the initial attack went well.

Proverbially, no military plan survives contact with the enemy. That is never truer than when there is no plan to begin with.

Even Colonel Lang, watching the Americans from the other side of Djebel Naemia, had been surprised by their timid initial approach to the Maknassy heights; a more forceful attack, he concluded, could have shortened the Tunisian campaign by weeks. In his view, the Americans appeared reluctant to risk heavy casualties in a decisive battle, preferring to crush their foes with material superiority even if that meant extending the fight. There was truth in that assessment too.

They're not shooting at us, they're not shooting at us," one infantry commander insisted, even as French artillery plastered his battalion.

The cardinal principle of concentrating military force had been abandoned by George and his ministers; so, too, had the pursuit of clear strategic goals while avoiding diversionary sideshows.

There are apparently two types of successful soldiers," Patton had recently written his son. "Those who get on by being unobtrusive and those who get on by being obtrusive. I am of the latter type." True enough

The battle," Rommel famously observed, "is fought and decided by the quartermasters before the shooting begins.

Senior officers in First Army would spend the rest of their lives trying to explain the tactical logic behind the Hürtgen battle plan. "All we could do was sit back and pray to God that nothing would happen," General Thorson, the operations officer, later lamented. "It was a horrible business, the forest.… We had the bear by the tail, and we just couldn't turn loose.

They made strategy at 33,000 feet (on) the campaign plane.

Congressmen had a use for their very own son of a bitch.

A handshake, as delivered by Lyndon Johnson, could be as effective as a hug.

Based upon the tournament results and the formal propositions, four simple suggestions are offered for individual choice: do not be envious of the other player's success; do not be the first to defect; reciprocate both cooperation and defection; and do not be too clever.

The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of reciprocal concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

That is, the car salespeople I observed threw the low-ball by proposing sweet deals, getting favorable decisions as a result, and then taking away the sweet part of the offers.

La decisión de acceder a la petición de otro está frecuentemente influida por la regla de la reciprocidad. Una táctica muy provechosa y habitual de ciertos profesionales de la persuasión consiste en dar algo antes de pedir un favor a cambio.