102 Quotes About Tactics

I don’t give a toss about pressure. I spent afternoon sleeping and playing Playstation. Then I went out and won the World Cup.

A general does not use the same troops over and over again.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

The best tactics are elegantly simple.

Effective tactics are amplified and leveraged until they stop working.

You're also brash, arrogant and fly in guns blazing without any finesse. Sometimes, a more subtle action can achieve the same effect.

...playing possum was a skill he'd learned in China once upon a time, and it had come in handy more than once. When, oh, Chinese gangsters, for example, thought you were down for the count, they were less prepared when you suddenly resurrected yourself and beat them to death with a goofy jade Buddha you didn't know why you had. Life was weird that way, and it always helped to have an edge.

The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both.

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.