Jose Mourinho Quotes

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

War is delightful for those who don't know it

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

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

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

History has been the history of warfare.

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.

We’re not going to win this war through polling.

Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders. No doubt several hundred thousand men will be spent to satisfy the military mind in the point.

Instead of stealing upon each other and taking every advantage to kill the enemy and save their own people, as we do, they [whites] march out, in open daylight, and fight, regardless of the number of warriors they may loose!

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.