Strategic Maneuvers Quotes

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack.. the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.

Life is a kind of chess.

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency

Snooker is just chess with balls.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

Tennis is physical chess.

Every traditional ways in politics that you get rid of an enemy has not worked on Donald Trump.

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.