A Quote by Bear Bryant

Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

Bear Bryant

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Championships Defense Offense Sells Tickets Wins

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Bear Bryant
American - Coach
September 11, 1913 - January 26, 1983

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Pat Summitt

The offense sells tickets and the defense wins the games.

Lindsey Nelson

It's like I was taught and I'm always saying it. Offense wins games, defense wins championships.

DeAndre Jordan

Offense is great, but defense wins championships.

Brittney Griner

Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.

Eric Bolling

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

Bobby Knight

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

Dan Quayle

Defense wins championships. I love being viewed as that guy.

Caris LeVert

Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships.

Jay Bilas

Obviously, people say offense wins games, defenses win championships. But I think, at the end of the day, if you score more points than the other team, you're going to win.

Sam Darnold

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

Marv Levy

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

George S. Patton

I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.

Kobe Bryant

I think the NFL season starts with the first three or four games and all the predictions come out. You're either great on offense, bad on defense, great on defense, bad on offense. You're either going to have a Super Bowl chance or you won't. And I think after that, people kind of think everything's set in stone.