Top 303 Defender Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
If a defender has the ball and turns, we start pressing the goalkeeper before he passes back because if they make a mistake, it is a chance.
Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.
A nanny, by being the child's doughty defender, may put sensitive noses out of joint.
Street basketball is all about shakes and fakes, crossing your defender up. The NBA is more strategic.
[When you're on fire] it feels like nobody's out there, you're playing by yourself. You don't care how good a defender is guarding you.
I personally like the way John Stones plays because I think he's a great defender.
For whatever the reasons may be, a lot of teams try to target me as a defender from a standpoint of assuming I'm not very great at it.
The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.
I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment for me to be compared to him.
I'm going to play with one goalkeeper, obviously, one defender, one midfielder and two attackers, very offensive because we need to score goals.
I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.
I think I am a good help defender as well as just bringing a lot of communication to the floor.
I've done quite a bit in England. I've won the majority of trophies and awards that there is to win, apart from top goalscorer... which is hard as a defender.
On a lot of teams that bottom guy, that weakside defender, is critical if something happens and you're broken down off the dribble or you're beat. That person has got to be there.
You have to admit, yes you play football, but at the same time you must not forget you are a defender and have to fight. Put your face in where it hurts.
Baresi was not tall but he was a great player, while Cannavaro was the best defender in the world - hopefully I will be the same.
When I come off the ball screen, I'm always trying to draw another defender, so where I can get my teammates open, and if not, I can score the basketball.
Would I - or any defender - tell the referee to give a penalty if I made a foul in the box but it was deemed a fair tackle? No chance.
You can ask every coach from Ron Gardenhire to Dave Clark, anyone who has seen me play, they don't know why they say I'm a bad defender.
Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.
The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
It's an offensive foul if you go into the defender's body, but if I fade and a guy runs into my leg, it's a foul.
It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked.
That's what I normally pride myself on, being a solid defender and giving all my energy on the defensive end.
I like to play against strikers and think that, from my size alone, I'm more of a central defender.
That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.
If a defender hits you and you stay down he might think he's got the better of you, so to get up and keep going is important.
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
I know, personally, people said a lot about what kind of defender I was. So I wanted to get better at it.
The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.
A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.
Paul Pogba is a revelation and my idol is Lillian Thuram. I'm inspired by the best and he was always a quick and safe defender.
From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.
If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.
Eventually, I think I'll probably end up at centre-half. By the time I get to 28 or 29, I imagine I'll be a defender.
At Kentucky, that was my job - coming off screens, catch and shoot, spacing the floor - no hesitations. Just go right into my shot - don't focus on the defender.
I'm a lock-up defender and I believe strongly in my defense, so I don't need to take cheap shots at guys to get an edge.
I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.
I'd say I'm a front foot defender; I never hesitate to go in for a challenge. You have to get one over your opponent and dominate them.
I enjoy those physical battles and I've been on record saying Virgil van Dijk is the best defender in the world.
I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.
When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.
I'm a defender first and foremost - blocks, headers, vital tackles, or even just the communication side of it, which is massive but doesn't really get recognised.
I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.
The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.
A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.
He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
The players who played for Milan when I was a child are legends for what they've won and given to football. Then, when I got bigger, Nesta became my idol and I went on to become a defender.
It's like, every game you never know how a defender is going to play you. You have to be mentally focused.
People that know me realise what kind of player I am. I'm a front-foot defender; I like a tackle, but I'm not malicious, and I don't go in to hurt.
From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
I do like to play and pass the ball. But first and foremost I see myself as a defender: blocking, tackling, heading.
I played at full-back for 10 years, I enjoyed it, and I had success there, so I can never regret being a defender.
Robin is a really good defender, runs well, dribbles the ball and plays hard and does whatever a coach wants him to do.
I'm a defender, and my first job is to make the team secure at the back; that's my primary responsibility.
As attorney general I see my role as defender both of press freedom and of the fair administration of justice.
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.
When you come out of pick-and-roll, it's really tough to step back and shoot because the defender is coming.
I don't have that intuition, of changing a defender for a midfielder, for example. I'm incompetent on that matter, to put a player on the pitch and hope that he magically finds a solution.
