Tactical Awareness Quotes

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

You need to know exactly where to be on the pitch at all times.

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.

I still play my fast-paced style but when the game slows down it allows you to see the little things - the right passes, where to lay the ball up.

It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.

How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.

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.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

When we have a defensive situation in which we are conceding too many goals, it is not just a problem in the defense but the entire team, starting with the coach.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

I'm not the strongest, I'm not the fastest, I can't jump the highest, so for me, it's doing it in other ways: changing paces, using your body to get open, knowing your defender. A lot goes into it. You have to study the game.

At Ajax, I got an education in how to be confident on the ball, my technique, and then, at Atletico, I learned how to defend. It was about the details, the ruthlessness; be clinical in front of your own goal, win every duel, be clever. I learned so much and, defensively, I grew there so much.

You watch Silva, and he almost never gives the ball away. He is always looking, thinking, making the right calls.

Casemiro has to cover the gaps left by everyone. That's balance for me; to make sure the game doesn't go mad.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

I think that football has changed, it has become more complex. For example, it's faster, you have less free space, and you have to play from such small spaces.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.

With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

I have faced many, but the most annoying was James Milner. He follows you forward and follows you backwards. It's very difficult because he attacks you and defends you, and then attacks you and defends you again.