Top 1200 Offense And Defense Quotes & Sayings

My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

All of our intelligence agencies, our Department of Defense, are all working to meet this threat. But it's a fast moving world; it's a place where offense is easier than defense, and keeping up with the next innovation in cyber-warfare is an enormous challenge.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

You want to be on the offense and make the defense react. I feel like that.

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I'm not interested in doing that.

As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

In high school, you don't play much defense. It's mostly offense. In college, it's vice versa, and that's what I tried to do.

That's something you want to preach throughout the whole defense - getting the ball back to the offense.

I am disappointed, but I am realistic too. When you put your defense back on the field repeatedly, the offense needs to do its job and the defense needs to get itself off the field.

We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

I'm up here to help the team win every at-bat, offense, defense, baserunning.

It's nice to not have to rely on one person, whether it's offense or defense, whatever it may be - get some production everywhere.

When there is no offense I make no defense.

Defense is my main priority, and offense is going to come second.

I've been in the frame of mind in Charlotte that, O.K., I'm going to play defense. But I've never been in a frame of mind that my defense is going to generate my offense.

Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.

It's football. The game hasn't changed. There's not tons of new concepts every year that go in. Offense is offense; it's our job to move the ball, to score points, and keep our defense off the field.

This game is not designed for the defense to have it easy, so if I am gonna favor one side, I'll favor the offense because I want the defense being put under as much stress as possible.

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

The best defense is a good offense.

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time because you didn't get the ball once or twice. That can't sidetrack you. It's got to be 'I live for my defense, and my offense I'll get. But I can't let it affect my defense. Nothing affects my defense.'

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

In politics as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.

Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.

Defensive guys don't really understand. It's totally different for offense. Defensive guys are convinced they know us but they just don't understand. Quarterbacks have so much that they have to read and adjust to. They have to look at everybody on the defense. It's totally different for the offense.

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, 'the best defense is a good offense.'

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

I think the NFL season starts with the first three or four games and all the predictions come out. You're either great on offense, bad on defense, great on defense, bad on offense. You're either going to have a Super Bowl chance or you won't. And I think after that, people kind of think everything's set in stone.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

Defense is natural. Defense is a reaction. Offense - you've gotta do the moves; you've gotta get it down pat.

The offense sells tickets and the defense wins the games.

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Defense doesn't sell as much as offense.

I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.

Whatever I can do to help our team, whether it's defense or offense, I'm going to do it.

I was letting the lack of touches on offense really affect my defense.

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense.

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

I think that my offense comes from what I do with my defense.

For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.

Offense is great, but defense wins championships.

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.