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Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

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Defense Good More Offense Related Than Winning

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Jack Ramsay
American - Coach
February 21, 1925 - April 28, 2014

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. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.

Eric Bolling

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

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

Chuck Schumer

That's where your defense starts. If you are not good in transition, you probably aren't going to be good. Or you'll be taking it out of the net and playing a lot of offense.

Mike Budenholzer

The best defense is a good offense.

Jack Dempsey

In politics as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.

Charlie Kirk

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Vince Flynn

I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.

Chauncey Billups

A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I'm not interested in doing that.

Frank Vogel

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

Scott Rolen

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

Chuck Connors

When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense.

Mike D'Antoni

Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, 'the best defense is a good offense.'

Mike Gallagher

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.

Thomas Wyatt

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