Top 1200 Offense And Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Just executing better. Getting into plays that help the offense as a whole, knowing our assignments better and just starting off stronger as you know we've struggled to do at times.

The key word is 'control.' I have to get to the point where I can do it like Magic does. That means penetrating, scoring more, taking over on offense once in a while, increasing my range on the outside shot to open things up for the drive.

Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

When I was younger, I was thinking of ways I could get respect so people wouldn't bother me. I was down for whatever. I ended up going to juvenile hall, facing a good amount of time for a first-time offense.

My father really put that in my head that defense is one of the key things in basketball.

I'll continue to take what the defense gives me. That's the way that I've always played.

Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

I hope I can stand up and be an example that helps change the narrative: 'He understands the game from a technical standpoint. He can teach the game. He can change an offense. He can put in a zone. He can do more than recruit.'

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

I couldn't shoot and I couldn't score in high school. All I could do is dunk and play defense.

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.

Shooters shoot. The worst thing a shooter can do is think. That's the best defense out there.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

I've always been tough my whole life. I'm able to take a lot of punishment, and that might be an even greater asset than my offense. I'm the guy that can take your best shot, and I'm not going to go down.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

I know I can hit. My defense has been there. I'm trying to show what I can do on the basepaths as well.

I take great pride in my defense because the bat is not always going to be there.

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.

I'm ready to come out and show people I'm able to play defense.

You still have to be able to throw the ball and play good defense to win a championship.

I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.

I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.

Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.

The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.

It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.

To me, when you play in the middle of the field or when you play safety, you have to do so much communicating that you've got to kind of watch the whole offense. You can't just pick a guy or just pass plays.

In college, I prided myself on defense and guarding the best player every night.

If a president makes a reasoned decision about what best serves the nation's interests, even if he turns out to be wrong, he has committed no impeachable offense. The Framers didn't intend, through impeachment, to transform such policy disputes or mistakes into high crimes.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.

Things happen, you have bad shooting days, the defense kind of figures you out.

I am capable of dribbling the ball. I can dribble. And I can play a little defense!

I've scored 30s and 20s off of guys who say they try to play defense.

Trust me, baby, you weren’t that good. I was just a better actress than you were actor. (Zephyra to Stryker) Ew! No offense, Mum, I don’t want to know who you’ve slept with. Kill the sexual bantering and him before I go deaf from it. (Medea)

It wasn’t a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you’d have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds. (Astrid) Yeah, maybe next time I’ll remember to take my climbing gear with me. (Zarek)

For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.