Top 1200 Playing Defense Quotes & Sayings

Our goal is to outplay the other team's defense every game - it doesn't matter who we're playing.

I don't care what kind of game it is, I'm playing defense. I love it.

In 10th grade, I started playing defense. Mainly because we already had a great tailback. Once I started playing it, it just started growing on me. I liked it a lot.

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.

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

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.

You can't just score more points than last year without playing defense.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

The more carries you get, the better you see the field, see the way that the defense is playing you.

I grew up playing defense all the time with my older brothers and the older players.

From my experience, playing on some really good teams in the past, that's No. 1, to pitch well and play defense.

I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.

The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

I built my career in the league playing defense and making shots, and also making plays when I needed to.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Our most important job in Congress is to provide for our national defense, and therefore, every year, Congress allocates funds and determines defense priorities in a bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.

I always try to play hard as possible to help my team - it doesn't matter if it's on defense or offense. I would say when I was young I was playing like that, too.

That's where your defense starts. If you are not good in transition, you probably aren't going to be good. Or you'll be taking it out of the net and playing a lot of offense.

Playing the nickel is something I'm very, very comfortable doing and I enjoy doing, but also, I know what me playing the safety position means to the entire defense.

If I'm playing bad, then I know we're not winning a lot of games, and we're definitely not No. 1 in pass defense.

I do feel like the quarterback of the defense is pretty important, so not having that piece would put a damper on the defense.

There's a sports saying, if you aren't playing offense, you're playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better but you have to aim higher and bring something else back in to the mix.

Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.

Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.

When I was playing, it was me playing both ends of the floor, playing offense, playing defense and I gave the ball up with assists. It wasn't like me doing one thing, scoring 25 and having three assists and one steal.

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

I just want to be in the middle of the order, playing solid defense, playing every day, being competitive and earning that my manager, the coaching staff, the front office, my teammates have faith that I'm going to be a helpful teammate. I want to do that until the very end.

I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score.

I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.

I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.

Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.

Playing defense hard gets me going offensively.

I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.

The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to a vigorous defense. Ideals give away to reality - defense lawyers working loopholes and angles to get their clients off.

Whether I'm shooting the ball, playing defense, anything I can do to help the team win, that's what I try to do to the best of my abilities.

I always look forward to playing great players, great scorers, because I pride myself on my defense.

At the end of the day, if I can keep playing defense, I'm going to be able to stay on the floor, and obviously that's what everyone wants to do.

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

I really wanted to step up my defense night in, night out. So that's my mindset, just playing defense and trying to be consistent with that.

I know that if I am playing at an all-pro level, our defense is playing well.

I think there's a lot of different things that factor into playing good defense, and you just can't say, "All right, if we just hold on to the ball long enough, we're going to play good defense."

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

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

The key to win is playing defense.

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

The defense can be affected by certain guys not being comfortable in the offense, and then not just playing and reacting on the other end.

If someone is not playing defense or not giving effort, that's my specialty. I don't hold back on my words.

Playing defense out here against grown men is physical.

Biden is supposed to be the commander-in-chief, but he forgot the name of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, and the Secretary of Defense.

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.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Defense, for me, is where I really love to put work in most. Defense is, in my mind, what wins games.

You can't win championships without playing great defense.

That's the best thing about playing defense. I get to see somebody else but myself get mad.