Battle Tactician Gifts

"If you must go to war get there late and go home early."

Servicemen.

“Sweet mother of Marmaduke... no!”

Alternative fielding positions

"Weather like this plagued my retreat from Moscow."

"Memo to self - personalise new work-station."

"Tonight we dine with the devil. But tomorrow we really need to finish what's left in the fridge."

"Well I didn't see the incident myself.."

'So far, sir, we've rejected plans A,B, C, D, E, F, and right now we're evaluating'G'.'

"Hail, Caesar! The barbarians have been beaten back, and Rome is still Numero Uno."

Carlo Ancelotti

Football.

"I hear it's because we're right and they're wrong."

'My kingdom for a horse! Are you nuts? How about high yielding mutual funds?'

Human males marking territory.

"Ooops is a bit of an understatement, don't you think Cardigan?"

ISIS needle in a haystack.

'Boy, look at his personal space!'

"Oh stop it. You know perfectly well that before every battle the enemy shouts things at us that we may find offensive."

A fish using pizza as bait to catch an ice hole fisherman.

'Look out, it's a double edged sword. . .'

"The answer isn't more troops—what you need is an antibiotic."

'You're just lazy! -- Don't give me that 'metal fatigue' stuff!'

"I know I told you to fool him into thinking you've got nothing left, but now you've got me convinced."

Manager. Managing a political campaign and a baseball team are alike in many ways. A campaign is launched with a "first pitch," when a candidate gives a speech selling himself or herself. I change pitchers based on the game situation. In politics and baseball, sometimes it's best to come from the right side and sometimes it's best to come from the left side. We study our competitors' weaknesses and exploit those. In politics we call that "opposition research." And I don't worry about the

"Call it wishful thinking, but I don't think this peace will last. . . ."

"Hasn't this been the best first hundred days ever?"

'Thank you colonel we'll keep your strategy in mind.'

Just as he was about to be annihilated, Dirk makes an amazing discovery,

"We're fighting them in zone A, they're our allies in zone B, and we don't know what to do in zone C."

'Sir, our sales force has just taken Atlanta.'

I've left your pin on the map, but I've loosened it.

Battle.

'Hurry, hurry! What's he saying?'

Arsene Wenger