A Quote by Serge Ibaka

You need to love to play defense.

Serge Ibaka

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Defense Love Need Play To Love

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Serge Ibaka
Congolese - Athlete
Born: September 18, 1989

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.

Eric Williams

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.

Avery Bradley

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.

Steve Yzerman

If I need to I can play defense, I guess.

Jack Sock

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

Joseph Sobran

I need to be the best player I can, score and play defense.

Evan Fournier

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.

Ann Coulter

You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.

Ben Howland

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.

Kevin Knox

If we play defense the way we're supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it'll be a great fight.

Karl-Anthony Towns

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

Ben Howland

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

John Brady

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

Chris Chelios

It's not always fun. It burns inside to play defense. But you have to keep working and eventually defense is something you get used to.

Kevin Knox

One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don't need to have a dominant defense anymore.