Top 171 Tactics Quotes

The tactics we were able to use in the 1960s, 1970s – let’s have a campaign, mobilize everybody and, therefore, social pressure – stop littering, or stop spitting, or be courteous to one another: I am not sure that kind of approach will work anymore.

One of the regime’s most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

The best tactics are those which lead you to a win.

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Market type influences everything a company does. Strategy and tactics for one market type seldom work for another.

The bigger the pressure, the sharper I am, the more in tune with my body I am, the better my tactics seem to be. A lot of people crumble under pressure; they do something crazy.

I’m really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution.

I consider myself to be a guerrilla journalist. Some would call me a provocateur, but I am a journalist who uses ambush and undercover tactics to uncover the truth and expose people for who they truly are.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

I think more of my tennis is more to do with the mental side of things rather than technique or, you know, tactics or anything like that.

You cannot stick with the same media strategy forever any more than you can stick with the same football tactics forever.

I always got on well with Roberto Mancini and never had a problem with him. Every manager has their own way of working, tactics, and style of play. As a player, you do what the manager says. There are misunderstandings, but generally, everything was fine under Mancini.

I’m not an enemy of formations and tactics because they are important – but you get to the point where the whole system loses balance.

Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.

In Spain, the game’s a lot more open. They score a lot more goals. They play football more. Here in Italy, they are much more concerned with tactics and strategy, and sometime we don’t play football.

Terrorists follow tried and tested tactics.

I have tactics that calm me down and mellow me out so I go in to the game calm and ready instead of punching the walls.

There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.

Each industry in a region should develop a playbook that expands and details the strategy and tactics of how to build a scalable startup.

To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to ‘close with, and destroy, the enemy.’ Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

It goes without saying that I love the game, the tactics, the training, and everything that happens on the pitch.

We should be demilitarizing the Boston police in weapons and tactics, and interactions with community. We should be reining in ballooning overtime for the police- a part of the city budget that has been eating into other necessary investments.

Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

As a player, I was always interested in tactics and how I can get better.

Obama and his Democrat allies in Congress have proven they will use bait-and-switch tactics to move more unvetted refugees into our communities. This will inevitably put our nation and our citizens at risk for future terrorist attacks.

Reading ‘Animal Farm’ set me free from the dictatorship in my head. I could see all the tactics used by the regime to control us – they were all in that book.

Tactics are manipulative.

Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested – to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.

When you’re a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.

Criminal and terrorist threats are morphing beyond traditional actors and tactics. We still have to worry about things like an al-Qaida cell plotting a large-scale attack, but we also now have to worry increasingly about homegrown violent extremists radicalizing in the shadows.

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn’t. I got all my tactics from where I grew up… I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

In my opinion, it’s better to be alone out there, having to decide on your tactics during the matches. I would prefer it if it was just me and my opponent having to solve the problems out there on the court.

Under the cover of encryption, terror masterminds provide recruits with the tactics and tools necessary to carry out attacks using small arms and explosives. None of this requires any overseas travel.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

As Leander does not have a strong case in court, he is resorting to underhand tactics through a few tabloids from time to time to malign my name publicly, without any proof to back his claims.

From a personal point of view, you want to be playing in every game, but when you have to cope with the heat, the artificial surfaces, injuries, and tactics based around the coach’s selection, you can’t do it all.

Players want a manager you feel in your gut you want to play for – they can have the best tactics and philosophy in the world but if you have lost a player in his heart or head, you have lost him in every other department.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.

I love discussing social issues, but I’m not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.

A coach these days is more of a manager than a coach. At this level, you shouldn’t really need a coach. You need someone to organise, to come up with gameplans and tactics, rather than someone who is going to do much actual coaching.

The tactics that the Trump administration are using on the streets of Portland are abhorrent. People are being literally scooped off the street into unmarked vans, rental cars, apparently. They are being denied probable cause. And they are denied due process. They don’t even know who’s pulling them into the vans.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

Tennis always fascinated me, because it made every demand: technology, tactics, physique, endurance. The competition of one against one has a very special charm.

No insurrection bred out of desperation can be quelled by strong-arm tactics.

I will always be thankful for the education I had at Salzburg. I needed to learn about the tactics of football, how the game worked, and that is what the club gave me, so I was ready for the next level when I got to Leipzig.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

E-cigarette companies are using shameful tactics, such as Joe Camel-like cartoons in advertisements and creating e-cigarette flavors like bubblegum and cotton candy, to addict our children early – and guarantee another generation of smokers.

The friendlies are an opportunity to look at different players and tactics.

Tactics are just a part of football because the players are playing.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they’re too deliberate.