Bill Belichick beat you to it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/03/sports/football/03belichick.html
From the link:
“Like, the general is so strategic that the other guy just falls down from sheer lack of strategic advantage.” To him, this never happens.
I give you Ronald "Maximus" Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, along with a procession of over-the-hill before-they-started Soviet "leaders".