Top 1200 Defensive Backs Quotes & Sayings - Page 6
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.
America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.
Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).
We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.
If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.
I recruit defensive players first. That's where most games are won. Then you've got to get the offensive linemen.
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)
I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.
In order to be one of the best defensive linemen in the NFL - which I am - it's doing things that other people aren't willing to do.
If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
Having a good defensive line allows you to play better because it's less stressful in terms of defending.
The only thing I wanted to change in the past was being a little bit more disciplined on the defensive end.
I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.
People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.
The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent
Defensive awards and accolades aside, to have your jersey retired puts you in a position where you'll be known forever.
I feel defensive about my character because I really love Andrea, and we share the same heart.
I have always felt it is better to lose in pursuit of victory than to kill a game with defensive tactics.
To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won't be touched, I feel like a kid all over again.
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.
First and foremost my obligation is on the defensive side. But obviously there are times when I need to go and attack, too.
I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
When you make a mistake, and the team is not doing well in defence, then the centre-backs and the 'keeper suffer more than the others.
I'm going to continue to be the defensive player that my team needs me to be and the real basketball people will get that.
Philipp is one of the best outside backs in the world, and has proved this over many years - how well he can perform on the right side.
Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.
Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.
Struve has great jiu-jitsu and I must avoid that. But when I'm in his guard, I can't be defensive, I have to go for kimuras, americanas and all of that.
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.
I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.
I don't wanna be labeled as just a defensive player or a rim protector or someone who can dunk. I feel like I can do everything.
I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
At the highest level, if you don't have a solid defensive base, you can't get by. In one match, yes. But over a whole competition? No.
I never said I had to be the highest-paid defensive player. That really wasn't the most important thing.
I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver.
At a World Cup it's hard to look much further than the traditional big-name teams: history backs that up.
During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.
It can be difficult for players who are perceived to have turned their backs on England, as Wilfried Zaha has found out after deciding to play for Ivory Coast.
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.
What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.
As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.
In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.
I've always liked Jordan Howard and what he's done in his young career. He's one of the top running backs, when you look at some of the production numbers.
I think if a batter's got the better of you naturally in the back of your mind you can go slightly defensive.
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).
Sometimes you can trust and hope that everything is going to be rosy and God doesn't promise that. He promises that He's got our backs and He's prepared a place for us.
No matter how much striking power you have got, you need to have a sense of defensive compactness from everyone.
My body of work speaks for itself. I don't need anybody in the media to tell me I'm a good defensive player.
