No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative.” “No offense taken,” John said mildly.
...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.
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.
It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.
He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.
I want to become the player that the offense gameplans around, that the offense fears coming into the game.
I like to think I'm pretty close in comparison to Aaron Rodgers. He's very athletic and gets the ball out quickly. He's very knowledgeable of the game, controls the offense totally, and that's something I try to do. Just know the offense inside and out.
I'm a big believer in going on offense, and I think Hillary Clinton is the ideal target on whom to go on offense.
Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense.
I'm not worried about offense. I've always had that, but I can get better defensively and that in turn will make my offense better.
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.
Whatever the offense dictates to allow me doing what I or this offense needs to do to win games, I'm going to do it.
I totally believe that God has blessed me with the unique ability to know offense, to call offense.
I can't tell you the difference between the triangle offense and the Princeton offense.