Tactic Quotes

“The real action is in the enemy's reaction.”

“If you're not shooting, you should be loading. If you're not loading, you should be moving. If you're not moving, you're a target.”

“Smash, don't spatter.”

“The passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient.”

“Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire and rush them!”

“Mark the epaulette men, and do not throw away a single shot.”

“To a lesser degree, the space of a tactic is the space of the other.”

“A tactic insinuates itself into the other’s place, fragmentarily, without taking it over in its entirety, without being able to keep it at a distance.”

“Put 'em under pressure.”

“Even the laziest king flees wildly in the face of a double check.”

“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”

“The tactical nature of the ‘ways of operating’ is its most general characteristic.”

“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”

“I would not have had a swamp in view of my militia on any consideration; they would have made for it, and nothing could have detained them from it.”

“My wife, she's a big fan of yours.”

“There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another.”

“In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.”

“Always be stronger than the enemy at the point of concentration.”

“We do not have to be told that the enemy is a dirty fighter. We must be dirtier.”

“It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.”