Quotes about Tactics

Luck is good planning, carefully executed.

The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.

For my own part, I think that Johnston's tactics were right. Anything that could have prolonged the war a year beyond the time that it did finally close, would probably have exhausted the North to such an extent that they might then have abandoned the contest and agreed to a separation.

Some commanders can move troops so as to get the maximum distance out of them without fatigue, while others can wear them out in a few days without accomplishing so much.

with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.

When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.

Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.

So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me.