Alexander Suvorov Quotes

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

Hard training - easy combat; easy training - hard combat.

You cannot go into combat without putting the work in.

Our military is meant to fight and win war.

The mission of our military is to fight and win wars.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

Nature creates few men brave; industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.

I need some more to drink. I have a war to fight.

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be able to do much.

You go into battle with your strengths.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

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.

Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'

The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

History has been the history of warfare.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.