Top 776 Defensive Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
If you're a director presenting a new idea, and the person who can judge whether or not it goes ahead is in the room, that makes you somewhat defensive.
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.
I feel defensive about my character because I really love Andrea, and we share the same heart.
Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.
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've been trying to figure out what mistakes I'm making defensively as far as help defensive stuff.
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?
I recruit defensive players first. That's where most games are won. Then you've got to get the offensive linemen.
Defensive lineman in the 3-4 isn't a glory position. He is supposed to tie up as many linemen as possible in order to free the linebackers.
We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.
Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.
I have always felt it is better to lose in pursuit of victory than to kill a game with defensive tactics.
One of my biggest concerns was how defensive the fans would be over The REV's drum throne. I'm grateful they have been welcoming.
Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.
Before I signed for Liverpool, I was playing for Newcastle as a No. 10 - basically, I was always attacking. I didn't have to do much defensive work; I didn't play as the No. 6 or the No. 8.
My body of work speaks for itself. I don't need anybody in the media to tell me I'm a good defensive player.
I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.
Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.
Once I got to college, I didn't know defensive rotations; my footwork was sloppy. I used to travel every other play.
When you disagree with somebody else, they often tend to get very defensive. But that doesn't stop me from doing the kind of work that I want to do.
I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver.
You certainly grow up on the defensive when you're related to America's most pilloried 20th-century president.
We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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.
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.
It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.
If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.
The only thing I wanted to change in the past was being a little bit more disciplined on the defensive end.
Everybody has to play for their team and accept his role, even if you are in a defensive position sometimes. That is the key if you want to have success.
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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.
Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.
When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you're sitting in pole position to win.
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.
1958 was my first year as a defensive backfield coach at Florida State. I remember one thing about that game: It was so cold. It was freezing.
Without a doubt, it is easier to produce a defensive soccer team, because it does not need you to have talent for it but simply to be well organised.
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
I've had so much great teaching, and I'm one of the best defensive players to ever play the game on the wing.
A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
I think that's one of the things that intrigues people the most: my defensive versatility. My movement and mobility is something that piques everybody's interest.
Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.
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.
When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.
You cannot play the position Kroos plays in defensive midfield besides Luka Modric better than he does.
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.
As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won't be touched, I feel like a kid all over again.
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.
You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you.
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.
It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.
