Tactical Knowledge Quotes

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

I'm lucky to have played two different positions. But of course the experience I gained as a full back - knowledge of defending, and taking up the right positions, helps me as a midfielder.

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

Zidane is not a coach, but he is a teacher.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don't know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

I know if I'm playing centre-back, there are certain places where you don't give your full-back the ball - because I've been the full-back!

Mr Conte is important as a coach that is able to really implement a game plan.

A Warrior does not go into battle without knowing the limitations of his ally.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with.

It wasn't purely Alex Ferguson's experience that made him a good manager, because he did it when he was inexperienced. But if you've got the qualities needed, and then you add experience to it, someone who's been through it, well, that has to be advantageous. There's no doubt about that.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

I'd like to think that centre-half is my best position.

When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles," Amelie said. "Not one who ran away from them." "Snap," Eve said. "You know what they're talking about?" Shane asked. "Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.

Prandelli is a coach with great experience and he knows how to work with young people also.