Top 327 Defenders Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
As long as everyone does their part - the attackers score the goals, and the defenders keep the clean sheets - then you can't go too wrong.
The toughest defenders I've faced are Alessandro Nesta, Paolo Maldini, Ivan Cordoba, Ciro Ferrara and Walter Samuel.
When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.
How can you not score goals in Barca! While defenders have trouble dealing with Messi, Villa and Bojan, they forgot about me.
Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home.
When you're a striker, you want to play all the games, and most chances come at the end because defenders are tired.
I'm working on my final ball, my precision in front of goal, my one-on-one attacking ability, just new ways to beat defenders and help my team.
Two English defenders were among the finest I played against: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand.
The playmakers need to read the game and need to be on the same page as the defenders and the forwards.
Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.
I don't think the physical part of English football would be a problem. When you get the ball, you need to be ready. The defenders here are very tough. I like that.
When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.
For the life of me, I'll never understand why the teams that have the best defences get criticised. Shouldn't clean sheets be a badge of honour for defenders and goalkeepers?
The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
A lot of players try to buy penalties, and sometimes defenders can't do a lot about it.
You can't defend against Thomas Muller, it's extremely difficult for defenders. As an opposing player, you never know what he's going to do next.
One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.
No matter which defenders are in front of me, they better be scared because of me.
Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
I've been a fan of 'The Defenders' since childhood, and Devil Slayer was always one of my favorite members of the team - especially during J.M. DeMatteis' wonderful run on the series.
Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.
The defenders in Italy are stronger, and that makes me better. Serie A is played in a different way to other leagues.
The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.
Some Brexiteers are passionate defenders of the benefits of immigration. Others just can't wait to slam the doors shut.
I am a goalkeeper. My first duty is to save the goal. The second is to communicate with my defenders and organize them.
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
Mario Mandzukic works so hard for his team. He's not only a No. 9 but also runs behind the defenders and drops into midfield.
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.
I always have a vehicle wherever I go, everything from weird motorcycles with side cars to old Jeep Willeys to beat up Defenders in Africa, you name it.
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
You know that without the whole team working together, it's a very hard job for the defenders, so everyone plays a part.
For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.
In my junior year, I became one of the best defenders on my team, and as the years go by my confidence gets even higher, and that's because of my coach.
Positional play is good for training, but in games, to win matches, you need someone who can go past defenders and take chances.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
I'll get a nice little break, after doing Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Whether I'm in [his show], I don't know, but there's The Defenders.
I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.
It's like after uni when you go to do a master's. Italy is like that for defenders.
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem
If you play for managers like Karl Robinson, it's about your development, but there are times when you have to stick up for yourself and let defenders know you are around when nobody is looking.
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?
You can't have three defenders moving up and one going back. The decisions a team makes are important. As a whole.
A lot of good pick-and-roll players keep the defenders on their back so they can see the whole floor.
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
I think with the qualities I have everyone expects me to dribble past four or five defenders every time I get the ball.
Maybe defenders don't always get the recognition like the other players get.
I'm liking the Bundesliga. There's a lot of top, top defenders that you come across.
For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.
Not only the attackers, but the defenders - it's on the attackers to prepare themselves to break through the strong defense.
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.
Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.
While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.
I think people should recognise that I'm one of the best defenders in the world and not just talk nonsense, I will say.
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
A striker scores goals, but the goalkeepers saves them, the defenders close chances down, and all the credit is shared out.
Defending is not only done by the defenders, just as attacking is not only down to the forwards.
