Quotes About Tactics

Machiavelli did believe that it was better to appear to be good than to be good. If you're good, you're just too vulnerable, but if you appear to be good, you get all the benefits plus you can be sneaky and, when necessary, stab someone in the back.

When you play at home in European football, you've got to come up with a happy balance where you get on the front foot and try to win it without leaving yourself vulnerable.

When a top batsman is coming after me, I have more chance of getting his wicket as he is just looking for fours and sixes. If I am vulnerable, he is vulnerable too. I can use my variations well and take my chances against him. That's how I look at batsmen attacking me.

I'm of the philosophy that you wage a campaign of full engagement and you use every tool in the toolbox.

If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.

Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.

Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.

I was a more aggressive rider than Armstrong. I would attack more often. He waits for the other guys, then counter-attacks.

Mayweather waits for you to make a mistake. He plays a similar game to me.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Wales are obviously a team that like to play rugby in your half and put as many people as possible in the front line and get off the line and put pressure on you.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

If there was no intentional walks, the guy would just walk him anyway, unintentionally intentionally walk him. You see a lot more of that than what meets the eye.

There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

Ben Henderson is a unique challenge.

We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage.

I have one idea: if you play better then you have a better chance to win. So my teams are dominant and I want them to be like that.

The aggressive betting on the daily doubles is one of my trademarks.

Getting to the halfbacks is a big part of any game.

The X's and O's with Bill Belichick is pretty amazing.

Boxing and billiards, its all angles.

In this game of politics, it's always kind of blame.

It doesn't make much sense to blitz a guy that gets rid of the ball in less than 1.5 seconds.