A Quote by Peter Bondra

You have to play defense, that's how you win. — © Peter Bondra
You have to play defense, that's how you win.

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My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.
You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.
You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.
I developed my game a lot and learned how to score off the dribble. I learned how to play team defense and one-on-one defense.
Defense not only wins games; it's what gets you on the floor at every level you play at. Once you get to high school and get to college, if you don't play defense, you won't play.
You still have to be able to throw the ball and play good defense to win a championship.
All the coaches preach about defense. Every day they talk about defense, they talk about how important it is to get stops in order to win basketball games.
That's how you win - pitching and defense.
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
Republicans don't play to win. But Donald Trump always plays to win and he is teaching Republicans how much fun it can be to play that way.
I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.
We all understand football is entertainment. And people like high-scoring games. But you still have to play defense to win championships.
As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.
We want to create a problem for the defense, a moment of indecision as they figure out how they want to play against whatever formation we may show. We get a slight edge this way. Also, we create the opportunity for a defense to make more mistakes.
A lot of people say you can't make the league if you can't play defense, so I really play really good defense. That's something I really pride myself on.
How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
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