Top 1200 Offense And Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

We have to be on offense against terrorists, that we have to make it bipartisan, that it isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican. It's about being an American.

I think I can bring a lot to the triangle offense. Derek Fisher wasn't the tallest guard, but what he did is succeed and have a great career. I'm looking forward to learning from him. I've never played in the system, so I want to get there early.

She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. "Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you're clearly the most anemic goth I've ever seen."... "We believed you. Because that's what friends do." pg267 October to Vlad

When it's a good shot, open, in rhythm with our offense you've got to take it. If it's open you've got to have confidence to shoot it and knock it down.

I need to be the best player I can, score and play defense.

[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.

Obviously, people say offense wins games, defenses win championships. But I think, at the end of the day, if you score more points than the other team, you're going to win.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.

The man doesn’t want me messing with it and, no offense, I wouldn’t anger him. I’ve seen what he can do and it’s the stuff horror movies are made of. Body part flailing, blood. Lots of blood and torture. (Berith)

I lived in Park Slope, which is probably one of the most homogenized areas of Brooklyn. No offense to Park Slope.

It's a conscious effort for me to be aggressive and take what the defense gives you.

I've still never gotten behind the defense and been caught.

I feel like the more carries I get, the more flow I get and just keep it rolling with me and the whole offense.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.

Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to its industrial zone, but Bushwick is no Williamsburg, even if the real estate agents would have you believe it is.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

When it comes to playoff time, the game slows down, the offense slows down and you've got to be able to get stops.

The king of branding, Mr. Trump performs best when he is on the defense.

I think there are different kinds of quarterbacks, and if you look at any offense, there are different kind of quarterbacks, but you play to the strengths of whoever the quarterback is for the team.

I know a lot of people try and set expectations for me. No offense to you guys, but I set my own expectations.

Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.

Before holding elective office - 12 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate - I served a different type of time. I was on probation for a federal offense committed as a teenager.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Perimeter defense may not matter if the enemy is inside the gates.

If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to have psychological advantage, he likes to be on the offense. He believes in what he calls truthful hyperbole.

Sometimes it happens, especially if you're a shooter. They say that you can't play great defense.

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

You can't win championships without playing great defense.

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

When I feel like it's my shot within the flow of the offense and getting in any rhythm, I feel like I should make every one of them.

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

When you see the floor and you understand the game and you're trying to break it down with what you have in front of you, you can do it offensively and defensively. And you try to take advantage of it both ways. You see where the offense's head is and you can kind of read what you want to do.

I think any time an offense struggles with developing a rhythm, struggles with scoring points, I think the first thing you have to examine is the quarterback.

When everyone touches the ball, it gives you energy and life on defense.

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

A compact defense has always been the basis of Italy's team.

It is not a crime nor an impeachable offense to engage in inappropriate personal conduct; nor is it a crime to obstruct or conceal an embarrassing relationship.

I'm utilized for playing defense, blocking shots and getting rebounds.