Top 213 Tactical Quotes & Sayings

Salzburg improved me as a player, and I learnt so much there. I got a really tactical education.

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.

In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.

I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.

In football, 80% of the game is played in your head; the other 20% is physical and tactical.

I don't really like all these tactical systems people talk about: 3-5-2, 4-3-3, and all that.

I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.

I would say Pep Guardiola's No. 1 quality is that he sees the technical and tactical aspect of a game really fast.

Pep is at a very high tactical level. A teacher who wants to know every detail of the game.

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

Italian football is just how I imagined it to be - far more tactical than the Spanish game which is based on technique.

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

There are a lot of tactical decisions that, if I could have done them over, I would have.

Training under Conte is strange - there's a lot of tactical work. In that respect, though, he is one of the best coaches I have ever had.

Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.

Don't even FRONT like you love your family, America, or God, if you don't have a DETAILED & REHEARSED Black Friday tactical shopping plan.

Theoretically in Germany there is more space because it is less tactical.

You can always improve with the team. There are tactical things, finishing in front of goal, speed as well.

Pep's tactical and technical assessments are like nothing I've ever seen before, and I think that's why people enjoy to see him fail.

Eddie Howe was the most tactical manager I have worked under.

For me, if you play at Anfield, it is not a tactical game.

That's a great golden nugget that's going in my tactical toolbox

Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America's enemies. But in both these cases, the tactical success of the attacks was not matched by strategic victories. Quite the reverse.

On a tactical level the defensive midfielder in a 4-3-3 formation is just about the most demanding position there is.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success.

I have been lucky enough to work with great coaches. My father was also a coach, and my position in central midfield requires tactical knowledge.

Football is not just about physical, technical, tactical. It's mental, really.

Perhaps I've committed some technical and tactical mistakes and I'll look to correct them.

Some of the yellow cards I get are for tactical fouls, which is fair enough, but I don't like the others - the ones for protesting.

Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

Madrid's players are carried along by the football itself, what they feel in each moment; they're not guided by tactical rigor or a specific structure.

The tactical way of Pep is the most incredible I have ever seen. When he was at Barcelona, that was their best team, I think.

When developing intelligence assessments, initial tactical reports often require additional collection and validation.

Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help.

I think, in general, the coaches in Italy are much more tactical; that's just how the league works.

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

My Italian adventure was positive because I improved a lot in tactical terms, most of all defensively, which is something I hadn't worked on quite so much.

Conte is a hard trainer, who likes to work on the physical and tactical aspect. When you are training you suffer, but then you thank him in the field.

In France, it is important to work every morning on the tactical. Wenger worked every morning on the tactical.

I cannot think of a tactical alliance with the Left because I represent the idea that there is a peaceful, nonviolent way to dislodge a dictatorship... A tactical Left alliance damages my argument. If I succeed with them, we will never know if peace can really produce freedom.

Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.

In England, I have acquired more tactical knowledge and improved the speed of my decision making.

The problem with tactical novelties that might lead to a manager being hailed as a hero is that if they do not come off they are the villain.

In Brazil, we believe a lot in skill. We think it will decide matches and tournaments. Sometimes we forget the tactical side.

Without question, women can act with bravery, foresight, and tactical intelligence.

In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

What drives 90 percent of stuff is not the small tactical decisions or the personal relationships but the big, macro political incentives.

You can do tactical games with a kid, and they don't even know it's tactical.

Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.

Here in the Premier League you need to be very quick mentally. Spaces are shorter and the game is much more tactical and tight.

I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)