Top 75 Tactical Quotes

The problem with tactical novelties that might lead to a manager being hailed as a hero is that if they do not come off they are the villain.

As a youngster in South America, there is more chance to express your talent, without thinking too much about formations and tactics. Football over here is much more tactical, so when you come to Europe, you have to learn a lot about these aspects.

Italian football is just how I imagined it to be – far more tactical than the Spanish game which is based on technique.

Today’s tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow’s strategic success.

An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn’t immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.

Training under Conte is strange – there’s a lot of tactical work. In that respect, though, he is one of the best coaches I have ever had.

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia’s history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.

I don’t really like all these tactical systems people talk about: 3-5-2, 4-3-3, and all that.

I can say when it comes to championships it’s a tactical race and normally you don’t have a pacesetter who can set a pace for fast times. That is why you see that obviously we fall around 1:43 because that is the most favorable one can run from the front.

I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.

I think that’s the beauty of being a private company: you get to choose when you disclose something. You can play it in a strategic way or in a tactical way.

What drives 90 percent of stuff is not the small tactical decisions or the personal relationships but the big, macro political incentives.

In France, it is important to work every morning on the tactical. Wenger worked every morning on the tactical.

In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

The most important thing is that you find a way to bring your thoughts into the hearts of the players. The tactical details are important because they can make a big difference.

In Spain, everything’s more tactical, more technical, with more possession. In Germany, it’s more physical; it’s about the runs you make, the counterattacks, and the German mentality is unique: whatever the score, you go to the 90th minute.

Certification programs for social media are blossoming as a response to the demand for more social media training. Both industry professionals and recent graduates are tapping into tactical training programs to help them stay up to date as the industry grows.

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

Kobe was my favorite player from just the way he went about competition. He was so skilled, but his mindset and his approach were really what I took away from him more than anything. How tactical, passionate and detailed he is about the game – he really loved the game.

I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights.

Without question, women can act with bravery, foresight, and tactical intelligence.

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it’s the biographer’s job to clobber it into submission. You’re meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

It’s called tactical periodisation because you push the physical and the psychological part together, but with organisation. So you run, but you run all the time with the ball. Always with the ball.

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That’s, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.

Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.

Keynes was scarcely a ‘revolutionary’ in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies with modern, pseudoscientific jargon, making them appear to be the latest findings of economic science.

Football is not just about physical, technical, tactical. It’s mental, really.

In Brazil, we believe a lot in skill. We think it will decide matches and tournaments. Sometimes we forget the tactical side.

The tactical way of Pep is the most incredible I have ever seen. When he was at Barcelona, that was their best team, I think.

Pep is at a very high tactical level. A teacher who wants to know every detail of the game.

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

Pep’s tactical and technical assessments are like nothing I’ve ever seen before, and I think that’s why people enjoy to see him fail.

The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.

Arsene Wenger took a lot of inspiration from players, he gave you a lot of freedom. Unai Emery is a bit more tactical.

I think, in general, the coaches in Italy are much more tactical; that’s just how the league works.

Conte is a hard trainer, who likes to work on the physical and tactical aspect. When you are training you suffer, but then you thank him in the field.

Make-up is all about shading; it’s about tactical application.

Tactical Work is the work you do every day in your business to generate income, along with all of the operational, financial, and management tasks that entails.

Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

Eddie Howe was the most tactical manager I have worked under.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players’ performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

I like the idea of playing with a bit more tactical freedom, either in a deeper role or supporting the strikers more often.

Despite what you hear in the news from the Obama administration and the military, our strategy of conducting infrequent airstrikes and re-taking pockets of Iraq and Syria terrain will only help us achieve short-lived tactical victories.

I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.

We don’t see the game as a tactical game.

I remember that, often, Mike Phelan would just nip down to the touchline for a message to one or two players. It was usually just a tactical thing. But when Sir Alex comes to the touchline, all the players know that it’s serious stuff.

You can always improve with the team. There are tactical things, finishing in front of goal, speed as well.

Madrid’s players are carried along by the football itself, what they feel in each moment; they’re not guided by tactical rigor or a specific structure.

The GRU is used for both tactical intelligence collection in the battlefield in support of Russian military operations and also strategic active measures or psychological warfare overseas.

In Europe, matches are different because you play a lot on a one-on-one basis. There’s less tactical importance in the Champions League. The value of the individual player makes the difference.

Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

In England, I have acquired more tactical knowledge and improved the speed of my decision making.

I’ve fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.

Preparing your tactical formation is essential. Each player needs to know where he has to be, and that is why there needs to be mutual understanding: because you need absolute discipline.