Defensive Quotes

232 quotes by 216 authors

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it… — Jo Brand
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. — Robert Burns
Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. — Francesca Annis
The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive. — Miyamoto Musashi
When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the… — Bobby Knight
We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If… — Ralph Miller
Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else. — Tex Winter
Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with… — Tex Winter
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive… — Jimmy Doolittle
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our… — Henri Nouwen
If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end. — Don Meyer
I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game.… — Steve Nash
The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of… — Kevin Garnett
You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to… — Esther Dyson
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. — Robert Herrick
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. — Eddie Shaw
My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor. — Bowden Wyatt
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have… — Demosthenes
We always try to mix it up-three-step drop, five-step drop, seven-step drop, naked bootleg. We spread out all these kinds of things to keep the… — Drew Brees

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