Tactics Quotes

"Keep your plans as dark as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." "In battle, use both the direct and indirect methods to your advantage." "All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved." "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." "In chess, one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge" "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his" "The best defense is a good offense" "Never let the enemy pick the battle site" "Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues" "All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." "You don't want to be the first to act, you want to be the last man standing" "Never let them know your next move" "Chess is a battle against mistakes." "When you see a good move, look for a better one." "The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters."