Defensive Quotes · Page 4

When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.

— Teemu Pukki

I expect to play at an All-Star defensive level, and everything else will come.

— Roy Hibbert

Draymond Green is one of the best in the league at grabbing a defensive rebound and starting the break.

— C. J. McCollum

I can play at full back on either side, but I prefer the central defensive position.

— Jerome Boateng

People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too

— Tom Thibodeau

I love playing the 3. I love playing the 3 from a mainly defensive standpoint.

— Larry Nance, Jr

I think Von Miller's got great style. For a defensive end, I think he has receiver-type style, swag.

— Antonio Brown

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along…

— Kurt Sutter

At the highest level, if you don't have a solid defensive base, you can't get by. In one match, yes. But over…

— Didier Deschamps

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee…

— James Longstreet

It's not just about your name. It's about what you do for your team and your value on the defensive end of…

— DeAndre Jordan

In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in…

— Mark Helprin

Before I came to Barcelona, I only thought about one facet of the game: destroying. My qualities were completely defensive, and I…

— Javier Mascherano

I have already worked Dunga. He helped me at Internacional, making me a more defensive midfielder. But I can play as a…

— Fred

Most of my football education was under Hope Powell, and were some of her training sessions boring? Yes. But were they necessary?…

— Alex Scott

The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team function, with the emphasis being on the defender's…

— Rinus Michels

Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and…

— Ndamukong Suh

Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and…

— John Madden

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen.

— Jevon Kearse

“I see that you are highly defensive." . . . Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.”

— Shirley Hazzard

A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.

— Jonathan Agnew

That's a major part of my game. I pride myself on the defensive end.

— Larry Nance, Jr

Sometimes as a player you have a different view and you can't believe what we did as a defensive unit.

— Per Mertesacker

I feel like I know what defensive backs are going to do before they do it.

— Amari Cooper

Somebody can always use me. They can always use a dominant defensive player.

— Terrell Suggs

I've been trying to figure out what mistakes I'm making defensively as far as help defensive stuff.

— Gerald Green

I feel defensive about my character because I really love Andrea, and we share the same heart.

— Laurie Holden

If I'm a GM and I'm trying to revive a franchise, a defensive coach is the way I'd go.

— Jerome Bettis

“Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled.”

— Lorrie Moore

I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.

— Priest Holmes

“defensive. "I don't want to talk about it." "Trin-" "Arthur, cool it." Trin ordered in his softest tone of voice.”

— AlTonya Washington

Some people say, 'Drop off, drop off,' but, no, I want to be pressuring and setting a defensive tone on the perimeter.

— Aaron Gordon

“Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?”

— Kyra Gregory

Defensive midfielder is my position and I have to be focused on that role.

— Nemanja Matic

The defensive phase is about the team, so it's about balance.

— Giorgio Chiellini

Once I got to college, I didn't know defensive rotations; my footwork was sloppy. I used to travel every other play.

— Kyle Kuzma

“Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.”

— Angelica Hopes

Every week we work really hard on that, in our defensive and offensive set pieces, and in our routines as well.

— Marco Silva