Top 776 Defensive Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
I know how much my late center Mike Webster suffered. I can only imagine what a lot of defensive players from my era are going through.
The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.
I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.
It's something I take a lot of pride in doing, in being the best defensive player in the world, in helping my teammates every night.
If seven or eight players play offensively, then it's clear that the offensive force is greater than the defensive stability. That's what I often say internally.
Our dad is recognized as being one of the great defensive coaches, probably arguably the best, in the history of the game. You can't say he's not in the top five, certainly.
I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.
Every year they are making the game harder and harder for a defensive player to play.
It's true that my body's not small and my style is not defensive. I am aggressive, and I am tall.
One time, I was practicing against the Tennessee Titans, and one of their defensive linemen took a cheap shot at our running back, so I planted him.
We can't get down on one loss or one bad defensive play. We gotta play through it.
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.
Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.
Cybersecurity is not only a question of developing defensive technologies but offensive technologies, as well.
I've played all over, to be honest. Centre-half, defensive midfield, attacking midfield.
I want to be on the All-Defensive team, be rookie of the year, make the All-Star team, all that type of stuff.
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.
When I arrived at Benfica I'd been playing like a No. 10 in the team, but the first thing the coach did was tell me: 'You are going to be a defensive midfielder here.'
I'm just going to do my job, what coach wants me to do, be a defensive piece, and when needed to be a scorer, I'm going to be that.
I mean, I think from the competitive side, especially as a defensive back, you don't mind that pressure, going out there on fourth-and-15 or whatever the down and distance.
The AZ captain Teun Koopmeiners, a left-footed centre back who can sit in midfield, is probably the best player in Holland in defensive areas.
You're put into a box where you're either an offensive, defensive coach or a player development guy. Fair or unfair. You have to be whatever your team needs you to be.
You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.
I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.
I like that I'm able to be one of the biggest guys in the league. It's a big advantage because sometimes you just don't beat a defensive back the way you want to.
A defensive coordinator is always going to try to throw you something different and get you out of your element, and I have to do better with the pass protection.
When everyone touches the ball, it gives everyone energy, and that translates to the defensive end, where it all starts.
You could kind of guess if you bring in Peanut Tillman to the defensive team meeting - yeah, it's all about turnovers and getting after the ball.
J-Lin is a phenomenal playmaker. He can pass the ball with either hand, left or right. Me, I'm more of a quick, defensive spot-up shooter.
Anytime you're a defensive player and your eyes aren't on your key, you're going to have an issue.
I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive.
A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
When you're a defensive lineman, to get your hands on the ball, it's a dream. It's everybody's dream.
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.
People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too
Sometimes I look at myself and ask, 'What is my best position?' But I think it's a defensive midfielder; that's the best one.
When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.
I don't know about habit, we've had a practice of it for as long as I've been doing this program [the Rush Limbaugh show], and a lot of the motivation for it is defensive.
In cyberspace, weapons systems get created in 24-hour cycles. You have no earthly idea whether or not you have a defensive capability against them.
The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.
I've got a defensive responsibility as well as trying to get goals and assists. I'm trying to do that.
If you feel you're being condescended to and not taken seriously in the discussion, that can make people feel defensive.
The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.
When you've got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they're really into the defensive end.
Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.
Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.
Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.
When we have a defensive situation in which we are conceding too many goals, it is not just a problem in the defense but the entire team, starting with the coach.
I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.
I don't really mind where I play, as long as I'm playing. I'm just happy to be on the pitch - as long as it's not defensive.
I think when you're a very good defensive team you give yourself a chance every night, on the road, at home, it's a big factor and something to build on.
The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it?
